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...selling stamps and sorting mail. Postmaster Shay kept digging systematically near Blackwater Draw. At last he found what looked like a human bone. He took it to Archaeologist Frank Hibben of the University of New Mexico, who 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...
...extra frequency and the high power and plaintive tone of this particular call, combined with the figure of a long lank loose-limbed son of the New Hampsihre hills, gradually, from day to day, during that last exam-crammed fortnight of the year, began to pierce the subconscious stratum of the brain-sweating, window-seated public mind. Such was the highly-charged psycho-electric atmosphere on one of the afternoons before the next morning...
...Play. Midland owed its boom to a quirk of nature and a persistent wildcatter named Arthur ("Tex") Harvey. Though Harvey knew that little oil had been found around Midland, he decided three years ago to take a chance anyway. He drilled down 12,000 feet to a stratum in which oil has been found elsewhere in Texas. The hole was dry. Then Harvey wondered what he might have missed on the way down. Working his well back, he got a little oil. Finally, in the fine-grained, hard-packed sands of the "Spraberry trend,"* at 8,000 ft., Tex Harvey...
...Pappy? Unlike most comic artists, Capp seems to attract readers in well-defined layers, each stratum as distinct as the segments of a pousse-café. Not all of them love him-some of the most virulent prose of the last decade has come from outraged Abner readers who have written to complain that he is undermining 1) the U.S. mind, 2) the nation's morals or 3) the Constitution itself...
...running the empire belongs to Holman, plus the eleven-man board of directors, most of whom came up as Holman did, stratum by stratum. The board chairman is Frank W. Abrams, 57, who started in Standard as a draftsman, came up the refining side. The executive committee of the board meets every day with Holman. It is the gusher which produces the policy on Standard's worldwide problems. It is Holman who refines the policy and distributes it. Actually, most of the day-by-day problems are sensibly solved by subsidiaries on the scene. This is partly...