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...hornless rhinoceros which paleontologists call Baluchitherium was undoubtedly the largest mammal that ever walked the Earth, not a trace of him was found until 1911. No complete skeleton of this 25,000,000-year-old monster exists anywhere, and the only skull, found in the Gobi by Dr. Walter Granger, is in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Dissatisfied with tentative representations of Baluchitherium as he looked in life, Dr. Granger decided that close study of the Museum's 200 miscellaneous bones would permit a more accurate drawing. Last week the Museum announced completion of the drawing...
...Chicago Great Western is a 1,518-mi. "Granger" road sprawling over the rich farm territory directly west of Chicago. Small in comparison with Grangers like Burlington or North Western, it is strategically important as a connection between the Transcontinentals and Chicago. Its president is Patrick H. ("Pat") Joyce, who declared on taking office in 1930 that the "trouble [with the road] is too damn many men wearing the seats of their pants shiny." And under the hard-boiled Joyce management Great Western was one of the few U. S. roads to show a bigger profit in 1930 than...
...into Washington's front doors instead of through the back. Chicago's social press dean is Ervie Ravenbyrne ("Chaperon") of Hearst's American, who weekends with the elect. She and "Dowager" (Helen Young) of Hearst's Herald & Examiner are assisted by able socialite reporters. Martha Granger Blair and Betty Field. New Orleans, The Times-Picayune's Anna Bolton Ellis, grey and gracious, has held her job for 32 years, is nearly as potent in her sphere as Cincinnati's Devereux in hers, assigning party dates and terrifying climbers. From January through Mardi Gras...
...dinosaur eggs eventually caused Dr. Andrews much vexation. George Olsen, paleontologist, discovered the first fragments. Dr. Andrews & companions "did not take his story very seriously. . . . The prospect was thrilling, but we would not let ourselves think of it too seriously. . . ." Dr. Walter Granger, paleontologist, finally said: "No dinosaur eggs have ever been found, but the reptiles probably did lay eggs. These must be dinosaur eggs. They can't be anything else...
...Martha Granger Blair gave up a job in a dress shop to go with the American. She has a year's contract at a salary "much bigger" than before, will write "authentic, interesting, amusing" stories. Whatever Mrs. Blair will say, she will put down either in longhand or by dictation : she does not know how to typewrite, though for purposes of publicity the American pictured her "writing her first newspaper story" at a typewriter. Fond of tennis, swimming, riding, mother of two, she dislikes golf and bridge, prefers talking to backgammon. Last winter, long before she knew...