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...last week, in a posthumous statement published in the journal Nature, the late British Geologist James Archibald Douglas offered his solution to the Piltdown hoax. The culprit, said Douglas in a tape recording made only a few months before his death last February at age 93, was his predecessor as professor of geology and paleontology at Oxford University, William Johnson Sollas. The motive: Sollas wanted to destroy the reputation of a hated rival by tricking him into publicly accepting as authentic what would later be unmasked as an elaborate joke...
Appearances to the contrary, Upstairs, Downstairs Producer John Hawkes-worth has not settled down in my lady's parlor. True, his new 15-part Masterpiece Theater presentation, a joint venture of the BBC and TIME-LIFE Television, has several things in common with its award-winning and much-beloved predecessor. Chief among these are intelligence and taste. The series is as handsomely produced, the Edwardian settings and costumes as lush and authentic, as any devotee of 165 Eaton Place could possibly wish. But Louisa Leyton, the heroine of The Duchess of Duke Street, would never pass muster with Hudson...
...surprising choice was not universally hailed. Many Italians, particularly in the hierarchy, saw the loss of the papacy after 4½ centuries as a defeat and a reprimand. Noting that Wojtyla's predecessor was not a Vatican bureaucrat but a pastor (Archbishop and Primate of Venice), one Curia prelate said, "If the last conclave gave a flunking grade to the Curia, this one extended it to the whole Italian hierarchy." Onlookers thought that some Italian prelates looked downcast, even grim, when Wojtyla made his first appearance on the balcony of the basilica. And when Genoa's Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, the front...
...from Eastern Europe. The first from Poland, a nation whose fervor for Roman Catholicism has been unsurpassed for a millennium. The first non-Italian elected since 1522 and thus, in a real sense, the first international Pope to lead a global church. And, in the wake of his frail predecessor, the youngest Pope chosen since 1846. The last under-60 Pope, Pius IX, reigned for 32 years. At age 58, Wojtyla is robust and muscular (he was described in the national daily The Australian as "a man built like a rugby front-row forward"), and it thus seemed possible that...
Navarro was hired as Princeton's 18th head football coach last December after the demise of predecessor Bob Casciola, with a four year contract to revitalize the sagging Tigers...