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...journalist, no OCD coordinator, but a youth right out of college and training for an Army Air Corps commission wrote the week's most penetrating comment on morale. Published in the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader was a letter written back home by handsome young Flyer Jerald B. Davis...
During the Civil War, 39 leaders of the hostile Minnesota Sioux were hanged. Dr. Mayo carted off the body of an ugly brave named Cut Nose, and after dissecting him, he strung together his skeleton, used it to teach his young sons anatomy. About this time, he mortgaged his house to buy a microscope...
...oddest puzzles an odd solution was last week suggested. The puzzle was the origin of "devil's corkscrews," which are fossils six to eight feet high, spiral in shape, with whorls eight inches to three feet in diameter. Buried vertically, they are found in Nebraska's Sioux County in Miocene deposits 15-to 30,000,000 years old. Moreover, fossil beavers have been found in several of the fossil corkscrews, in which microscopic study shows an abundance of petrified plant cells. So two theories arose...
...Sioux Indian Dances...
Other party artists are Marvin J. Shapiro '42, an expert cartoonist, who often teams up with his housemate Daniel M. Pearce '42 for a combination rapid-drawing and white-faced clown act. Paul Rail '45, regaled in colorful Sioux costumery, will demonstrate "the rhythmic dances of the red man, and explain their symbolism...