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Door Jam. In Rock Springs, Wyo., the judge who fined Cecil Jones for intoxication had to stand outside Jones's cell to do it: Jones had mistaken the lock on the door for a slot machine, jammed it full of nickels...
...Ladies Only. The women's final brought together two red-gold coiffured stylists, sturdy Louise Brough (rhymes with rock) and the trim 1942 champ with the trigger backhand, Pauline Betz. Miss Betz had a tough three-set tussle to renew her title...
...What should pop up in the Hudson Valley last week but Archeology itself. And the ferret that caused the pop was no Archeologist, Ph. D., but a Girl Scout. Ten-year-old Betty Lou Norris of Brooklyn and other Scouts had listened to lectures on Indians, went hunting rock shelters. In one shelter near New York's Kanawauke Lake, Scout Norris spied charred deer bones. She yipped to her friends; they yipped to William Henry Carr, head of Bear Mountain Trailside Museum. Inured to the "discoveries" of amateur archeologists, he went and had a skeptical look. Whereupon, knowing...
Roused from their museums, several eminent archeologists scurried to the rock shelter. Copenhagen's Helge Larsen, now a curator at New York City's American Museum of Natural History, was heard to observe that the 17th-Century Indians had a lower culture than did the Alaskan Eskimos whose remains he had just been studying. His colleague, Anthropologist Junius B. Bird, was pleased that the girls had made good use of the lectures they had heard...
...space of 24 hours, on October 6, another honorary degree was granted, this time to Cardinal Desire Felicien Francolise Joseph Mercier, Belgium's hero primate. Describing Cardinal Mercier, as "a great rock in the wilderness," Lowell conferred the honor before an assembly of dignitaries at Sanders Theatre...