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...Deal. Alfred's fossil hunting began when he was only 13, when he hiked to the abandoned Granton quarry in North Bergen, a mile from his home. Friends showed him the remains of ancient fish in a layer of fine-grained black shale and Alfred became a paleontologist on the spot. He spent most of his spare time in the old quarry. At night he pored over books on his new hobby. Soon he had an impressive fossil collection, mostly of primitive fish, such as coelacanths, which he took to the Museum of Natural History...
...museum's paleontologists had often rummaged through the black shale of the Granton quarry, but none of them could match Alfred's collection of fossils...
Last summer Alfred began to prowl the quarry with Joe Geiler and Mike Bandrowski, who had joined the project just a few months before. A large area was being leveled for the construction of a supermarket, and Alfred led his small but expert crew to a place where shale lay near the surface. They dug down to the dark rock and brought big slabs to the surface. They found some coelacanth fossils first but ignored them as commonplace. Then they split another slab, and Alfred knew at once that they had come upon something extraordinary. In the shale...
Fearlessly at home in the water, the way a fisherman's sons often are, the Fukushi brothers splashed about last week in the protective shallows breaking over the narrow shale shelf of their little beach on Okujiri Island, ten miles off Hokkaido's southwestern shore. When 14-year-old Masami Fukushi plunged off the shelf and sprinted out into deep water toward a rock 50 yards away, his younger brothers, Masakatsu, 12, Takeshi, 10, and Takeaki. 9, quickly gave chase...
William Birrell Franlce, 65, top-rung accountant and retired New York businessman (onetime chairman of General Shale Products Corp. and plumbing-making John Simmons Co.), moved up from Navy Under Secretary to Secretary...