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Although the strike has practically eliminated Yale's sanitary, electrical, and custodial services, the union has kept a skeleton crew at the university medical centers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Refuses Strikers Bids For Reforms | 5/8/1953 | See Source »

...becomes blurry at times, and there is often little illusion of depth, particularly in closeups. The picture's writing and direction are also blurry, and the extra dimension is used primarily as a trick. All sorts of objects pop out at the audience from the screen: fists, a skeleton's hand, cancan dancers' legs, guns, pickaxes, spears, falling bodies. As Waxworks Proprietor Price says at one point: "I'm going to give the people what they want-sensation, horror, shock." If, as Hollywood fondly hopes, this is what moviegoers want, House of Wax is a howling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Big Illusion | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...recently found what is probably the first authentic bone of Folsom Man, a mysterious race of hunters who lived 10,000 years ago. Shay went bone-hunting with Jerry Ainsworth, a student at Eastern New Mexico College. Near a small stream called Blackwater Draw, they found the skeleton of a "dire wolf," a husky, toothy, carnivorous beast that died out toward the end of the glacial period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

...identified it as a human rib. Since it came from the same stratum as the dire wolf that had tangled with a Folsom hunter. Dr. Hibben believes that it is a Folsom bone, the first ever found. He hopes that further digging will turn up the rest of the skeleton. Then science will get a real look at shadowy Folsom Man, who has been known thus far only by his typical fluted spearheads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

Beer & Sherry. The one thing London U. lacks is glamor. Its biggest tourist attraction is the fully dressed skeleton of Jeremy Bentham that still glowers from its glass case in the men's staff common room at University College. London students are likely to drink beer instead of sherry, and less than half of them live at their colleges. The rest live at home or in lodging houses about town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cinderella U. | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

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