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Deep down in the crypt of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Manhattan, rattled the bones of the Protestant Episcopal family skeleton last week. All the famed trustees* of the cathedral held their backs to the door and feigned guileless smiles, but the hollow knock of femur and tibia was audible to many observers, and while the skeleton clanked, a lone goat roamed disconsolately out of the cathedral close into the wide, wide world, and that was young Rev. Joseph B. Bernardin, who, until last week, was assistant to the cathedral's dean and instructor in the choir school...
...Harbury, England, is a limestone quarry which has served as a tomb for at least two denizens of primeval seas. Last February the fossil remains of a mammoth reptile were found there. Last week many a paleontologist hastened to Harbury to see another monstrous skeleton which had just been unearthed at only 300 yards distance from the first discovery...
...skeleton was thin, undulating, crumbling. The shattered bones of the gangling creature stretched 26 feet; projecting from the body were four chipped, broken appendages. These, the paleontologists decided, had been paddles. They noted with delight that the creature had had three eyes, the third in the middle of its small, narrow head. They classified it as a plesiosaurus,* a marine reptile which perished in the waters covering the spot perhaps 100 or 200 million years...
...Pooles, a Nieuw Amsterdam-bound old family who are proud of family portraits, prouder still of family history or so much of it as has not been written in the past decade. Consuelo Poole (Rose Hobart) has a suppressed desire for a riveter who pumps bolts into the skeleton of a growing building near the Pooles' Manhattan home. One day, out of a steel-beamed sky, the riveter crashes through the Pooles' conservatory roof. Stunned by the fall, his astonishment is increased by the proximity of Consuelo. His way of expressing his daze is to say "Geez" many...
...backfield and end combinations were sent through a skeleton drill on forward passes. E. T. Putnam Jr. '30, S. L. Batchelder '31, T. W. Gilligan '31, and A. W. Huguley '31, with J. B. Baldwin '31 and S. C. Burns '29 were used on the offensive against a backfield composed of George Crawford ocC., David Guarnaccia '29, A. L. Devens '30, and G. L. Graves '31, aided by R. H. O'Connell '29 and F. A. Pickard '29. The other linemen, meanwhile, were engaged in contact work on blocking and shifting...