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...white-haired Curator Mark R. Harrington of the Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, was pocking the hill with carefully dug excavations. Working with trowels and brushes in 100° heat, they turned up spear points, grinding stones and the charcoal of ancient fires. Their prize find: a piece of human thigh bone. Curator Harrington believes that the site was inhabited seasonally by 300 to 400 people about 10,000 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...cockiness had vanished. Against Kramer, he had to make tremendous shots to win points. After dropping the first set, 7-5, he kept slapping his thigh in befuddlement and frustration. Kramer's best weapons (serve, volley and overhead) worked with mechanical deadliness. Big Jake romped through the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Question | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...down some $250,000,000 from 1946-due mostly to home permanents. And permanent waves make up one-half of all beauty shops' sales. Unless shops find a way to keep women loyal to store curls, or newly resolute in pounding fat off thigh and midriff, most of the beauty would go out of their business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSMETICS: Icy Wave | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Fortunately the other eight men who will take to Soldiers Field turf for the Crimson are better aligned. The only question is whether Charley Roche's pulled thigh muscle will keep him on the bench, in which case John Caulfield will open in left field. Other positions are the same as against Suffolk Wednesday except for the return of Jim Kenary from football practice to tend center field for Samborski...

Author: By Charles W. Balley nd, | Title: Track, Baseball Teams Open Spring Season Here Today Against Eagles | 4/10/1948 | See Source »

...from Clark and the situation comedy he provokes, "Sweethearts" is not worth the few tunes that motivate its singers. All too often the usual operetta tomfoolery involving disguised counts and misplaced husbands is a little hard to stomach. Clark, however, patches things up nicely by injecting enough innuendo and thigh-gazing into the proceedings to make even the merry widow drop her mask. Snatching at apron strings and pinching fannies, Bobby Clark makes no bones about his slapstic; but the very fact that he enjoys himself wins over the audience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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