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...most important contribution to paleontology since The Lost World, spectacularly illustrates the Hal Roach theory of evolution-when Cave Boy meets Cave Girl there is a big improvement in mankind's table manners. Early in 1,000,000 B. C. Cave Boy is still tearing off hunks of roast triceratops, scrambling up a high rock to squat and gnaw. By 999,999 B. C. Cave Girl has him eating out of a clam shell. She is less successful with the shoals of hungry reptiles which swarm into the picture from practically every geologic epoch, all of whom share...
...Columbia and Mule Day, past the great plantation houses, the slave cabins, the knobby-legged colts and lamb-sprinkled meadows of middle Tennessee; on to St. Louis (750 postmasters and roast lamb) where he went in the wrong door of the Statler Hotel, surprising a letter-carriers' band facing the other...
...speech in praise of Tom; at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, biggest combined military, agricultural, petroleum engineering and veterinary school in the U. S. (it furnished more Army officers in World War I than West Point), maneuvers, a showerbath, dinner with ex-Governor Jim Ferguson and 900 other guests (roast Texas steer). Then on 160 miles to Tyler, the East Texas oil fields blazing fountains of burning gas in the hot night; to bed at 1:30 a.m. In Shreveport, La. a holiday crowd of 10,000, and a reception by Governor-elect Sam Jones; to Jackson at midnight...
Among 102,500 radio listeners who sent contributions of 50? to $5, some made touching sacrifices. One family gave up its Sunday roast to send $1.71. From an old ladies' home came $1.75. One dollar bill came from a man & wife, sole inhabitants of an island ten miles off the New Hampshire coast. Many sent letters telling how they had raised their contributions. Sample...
...Route. A private car supplied by the German Government. Inside, a crack German photographer who once accompanied Ribbentrop to Moscow, a suave German diplomat who once served in Washington. Also, elaborate trays of hors d'oeuvres, dinner of soup, roast chicken, vegetables, stewed fruit, coffee, and stout German protestations that such was the regular fare. In the U. S. party, enigmatic, icy, shiny-domed Sumner Welles; black-haired, jovial Chief of the European Affairs Division and crack career Diplomat Jay Pierrepont Moffat; quiet Lucius Hartwell Johnson, onetime Welles secretary newly recruited for this trip. Lights were bright behind...