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...Juan drainage of Southeastern Utah. Alkali Ridge is covered with hundreds of ruins, dating from the pit house of Basket-maker times to the many-roomed stone structures of Puoblo III. The object of the expedition is to define the Pueblo II culture, which has never been determined. Thirteen sites were excavated last year with gratifying results...
...dead industry about to be brought to life. Millions of dollars of profits depended on correctly gauging the size, the requirements, the effect upon their own concerns of the resurrected brewing industry. Basic criterion, to be modified by current conditions, were facts about the beer industry before it died thirteen years...
...TUESDAY CLUB MURDERS-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Thirteen mysteries, each solved by the bright-eyed little old lady...
...Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, aged four, slipped off a chest of drawers, broke his foot, and thereby forfeited all claim to military training and parental affection. But if a sickly cripple could not wield a saber, he could at least study the scriptures, and Maurice, aged thirteen, was consigned to the ecclesiastical limbo. Twenty years later he wore the Miter of Autun. Thence for sixty odd years the imperturbable Talleyrand stood at the right elbow of every government that held sway in Paris. Through the maze of diplomacy and intrigue he walked, smiling ironically, drinking deeply and often...
...Thirteen British boys (average age, 16) are this year enjoying an International Schoolboy Fellowship in such schools as Kent, Loomis, St. Paul's, Taft, Asheville, Choate, Pomfret...