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...decades, Jia helped unearth a record 45 Homo erectus fossils from the Zhoukoudian site near Beijing. He discovered the first Chinese hominid fossils dating from the Pleistocene era that began 1.8 million years ago, bolstering the theory that modern Chinese are descended from these early men. DIED. WALLACE REYBURN, 87, war correspondent and author of 25 books, including Rehearsal for Invasion, the first-hand account of the ill-fated Dieppe raid of 1942; in London. A deadpan wit, he raised eyebrows with Flushed with Pride, the story of John Crapper, father of the modern toilet and Bust-Up, a spoof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...appointment of Eric N. Reyburn '83 as an assistant to Smith should help prevent delivery problems this year, Epps said, adding that Reyburn will try to assure that the approximately 800 Times subscribers at Harvard receive papers every...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: HDNS Blames Problems on N.Y. Times | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...Reyburn said yesterday he believes wildcat strikes in New York have caused later delivery of papers to the Boston area. "I'm sure many people think this is just a line," he said...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: HDNS Blames Problems on N.Y. Times | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

Once the Times begins delivering papers on time, HDNS will insure that anyone who does not receive a paper in the morning can call the service's office and ask to have the paper delivered to his House, Reyburn said...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: HDNS Blames Problems on N.Y. Times | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...Reyburn home in Bonham is a big white house with twelve rooms, four 20-ft. white columns in front, four sleeping porches, 14 rocking chairs and almost as many couches, and a Brobdingnagian butane gas stove in the kitchen. The farm has 150 acres; there are 208 more acres on a neighboring farm, and 917 on the Rayburn cattle ranch 13 miles away. Sam's brothers, Tom and Jim, run the farm and ranch; his sister Lucinda, known to all as Miss Lou, is the mistress of the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Mister Speaker | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

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