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...Although the A. R. T. was organized to bring to the American stage plays which otherwise might not reach the boards, one id tempted to ask, as with their production of "Henry VIII," why this particular play was chosen for revival. For aside from its value as a specimen of Ibsen's development as a playwright, "John Gabriel Borkman" is a sodden and scarcely believable play...
...rather his skull, for the rest of him has been apportioned out in Britain and Palestine-was assembled only for the press Tuesday, and then carefully concealed by Museum attendants mindful of his value as the oldest museum specimen at large in this country...
...Theodore McCown, of the University of California, who dug up the specimen, brought him to Hugh O. Hencken, director of the American School of Prehistoric Research, whose office is in the Museum...
...after taking one look at the specimen called "Mr. America" [TIME, June 17], I wonder why they can't find something like this as a challenger for Joe Louis. If the muscle and brawn is as good as it looks and this is not just a puffball exposure, after the poor fight Conn put up ... this man looks as if he could revive the old glamor of boxing interest in a very short time...
...Specimen No. 2 was 52-year-old Walter Geist, a big-boned man with a plowlike face. Geist started life as an errand boy at Allis-Chalmers, also a manufacturer of farm implements; 33 years later he became its president. His habitat is Milwaukee...