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...Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey's finds in Kenya Colony 200 miles from the Oldoway gorge. The human fossils which Mr. Leakey has-he transported one in its aboriginal mold to London-are with little question pleistocene. They were built and buried like Oldoway. One had an iron ring around a toe bone. The ring seems a preposterous anachronism...
...ring canvas was spattered with blood. Reporters at the ringside held up newspapers to shield themselves. The referee had to wipe blood from his hands between rounds. But still the awkward, stooping little fighter advanced, his gloves now at his head for relief from the hammering it was getting, and now in furious, smashing action against the ribs and head of his opponent. The little fighter's flat nose, freshly broken, bubbled redly as he snorted for breath. His head rocked as punch after punch landed on it. But on & on he went, crowding, slamming, tearing in like...
After eleven rounds of it, beetle-browed little Christopher (."Bat") Battalino, who had insisted on twelve rounds because he thought he had the edge for stamina, gathered himself for a last effort to make the kill. He sprang across the ring. But wise old Billy Petrolic, whose nickname "Fargo Express" refers to a far day when he handled freight in North Dakota, measured him as he came. Petrolle was tired. He looked discouraged, too. and his knees had sagged during several of Battalino's crazy assaults. But his straight left and lethally fast right were still accurate. He measured...
...Song Dances, and Funny Sayings' 'takes himself and his woes so seriously that missed the optimism and dash which we usually associate with song dance men. He was perhaps too too somber, too doleful. The boast the he was "the best song and dance in the world" failed to ring true: threat that he would throw himself the East River seemed far more possible. Mr. Brian's interpretation, however, is admisable; moreover it is vincing and consistent throughout...
...sent off to learn from a priest. On his way home after the interview he passed a dead willow, with a hollow branch that looked like a snake's head. Into the hollow he stuck the contents of his pockets, crystallized almonds, nuts, Eva Veeder's ring. Lacking more, he picked little red hips from wildrose shrubs, stuffed them into the serpent's jaws. Going away he looked back, saw some magpies flying around the place; one was perched on the serpent's head, seemed to be pecking into the jaws. "A feeling of boundless...