Word: paleontologists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earliest Humanoids. In Algeria, Paleontologist Camille Arambourg of France's National Museum of Natural History stumbled across dim traces of primeval man. He was digging into a rich deposit of animal bones between the cities of Constantine and Setif when he found some peculiar stones. They were about the size of a man's fist, smooth and rounded on one side and cut into rough facets on the other. At first he thought they were natural accidents, but when he found 300 of them in one small area, he decided that no accident could have brought them together...
...writing and direction are as flat as the photography. The beast is a 40-ft.-high "rhedosaurus," which gets to Coney Island after being dislodged by an Arctic atom-bomb test from a 100 million-year hibernation. With the help of a handsome scientist (Paul Christian) and a pretty paleontologist (Paula Raymond), the Mesozoic monster is finally killed off. The picture has a few scary moments when the special-effects men, unhampered by antediluvian human dramatics, let the rhedosaurus run loose in Manhattan, knocking over buildings, crushing automobiles underfoot, swallowing policemen...
...lifting a shovel, professional diggers discover scientific treasures. Browsing through the modest collections of amateur "rock hounds," they have found many a rare fossil, often misclassified and almost as obscure as if it were still buried in prehistoric shale. Last winter, hoping for just such a find, veteran Paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson took time out from a lecture tour to visit the private museum of Alonzo Wesley Hancock, a retired Oregon postman...
...amateur archaeologist ever since he was a boy in the Ozarks, 69-year-old Digger Hancock showed his visitor an array of calcified nuts, leaves and bone fragments. Paleontologist Simpson was fascinated by a giant (450 lbs.), two-tusked hunk of elephant skull which the ex-mailman had dug up twelve years before. Hancock thought he had found the remains of a Tetrabelodon, an early elephant that had roamed the Northwest during the Pliocene period, some 5,000,000 years earlier. Cautiously, Expert Simpson disagreed. To him, the jawbone looked as if it belonged to a Miocene mastodon, the elephant...
...total of only 10 others given in the College's entire history. Among the notables receiving these degrees will be: Madame Vijaya Pandit, India's ambassador to the U.S.; Mildred McAfee Horton, ex-President of Wellesley; Ester Forbes, 1945 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History; Tilly Edinger, Research Paleontologist in the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology; Anne O'Hare McCormick, N.Y. Times Foreign Correspondent and 1938 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Journalism; Dorothy Fosdick, Member of the State Department's Policy Planning Committee; Belle Sherwin, a founder and first President of the League of Women Voters; Mabel Newcomer, Professor of Economics...