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...known use of lime, and much pottery decorated with reddish geometrical designs, presumably left by "The Painted Pottery Peoples" who first overran India, Persia and Mesopotamia about 6000 B. C. A sharply emerging concept of personal property was indicated by clay seals. One seal portrayed a huge, vulture-like bird hovering over a stag, another a man and woman cowering before a serpent, no doubt a local variant of the Adam & Eve story. A seal found on Level Eleven depicted two men stirring a vat with long poles; the diggers took it to be the earliest known representation...
...sailor's wooden Virgin-doll, so is there a robust tang in this picture's sentiment, wherein Shirley weeps over just such a doll because Captain January gave it to her and she has been taken away from him. And the songs, "The Right Somebody to Love," "The Early Bird," and especially "At the Codfish Ball," are lilting gaiety
...Government, which thereupon become official. Cost: $250,000 per year. Price: 5? a copy, $10 a year. First article in the 16 pages of No. 1, Vol. 1 was an account of the plans of the Department of Agriculture to make Bull Island, S. C. into a migratory bird refuge. Author of the article was Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...Carl Laemmle usually returned with relatives who were promptly placed on Universal's payroll. Many were incompetents. None was discharged. The peak of Universal nepotism came in 1929. Carl Laemmle made his son, Carl Jr., general manager of the company, in honor of Junior's 21st birthday. Bird-like little Junior started out brilliantly with All Quiet. Two years ago, he resigned to become an associate producer. Even a change in management was not enough to rescue Universal...
Coach Harlow will speak on "Bird Trips Through North America" at an open meeting of the Ornithology club in Lowell House Common Room this evening at 7.30 o'clock...