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Like a Broadway musical show, the scenes were swift and elaborate. The first was an Alpine rock that looked on a glinting glacier. The second was a prima donna's apartment in a modern Swiss hotel. Then came a corridor of a Parisian hotel, intermission, the Swiss hotel again, the glacier, the balcony of still another hotel set for dining and dancing to a radio's loudspeaker, a street in the middle of the town, a railroad terminal with real trains, the terminal exit with a real automobile, the terminal's tracks again-and then the station...
...unusual exhibit is on display in the entrance hall of the Museum. This is a fossilized slab of rock from Agate Springs, Nebraska, in which are located the bones of a rhinoceros, so thickly scattered as to make an almost solid pavement. This slab has been prepared in such a way as to show the bones of the animal, in the position in which, they were washed in the bed of an ancient river. The slab was found in a prairie, which was formerly the bed of this river. The slab is to be placed in a glass case...
...last week when Mr. Rockefeller Jr. was gazing at the Rock of Gibraltar, en route to Egypt on an expedition with famed Digger James Henry Breasted of the University of Chicago, the Rockefeller office in Manhattan made public a letter which he had written to the stockholders of Standard Oil of Indiana...
...reptile, known as a Ptesandon, was of that species which frequented Kansas about 60,000,000 years ago. It was brought to the museum in 1883, where it was put away in the attic still embedded in the rock, and its presence forgotten. In an extensive cleaning-up last summer the specimen was found again and proved to be of rare size and completeness...
...tusk was found sticking in a river bank, which was 200 feat high, at that point. Half of the tusk was protruding from the bank, the other half being wedged between stratas of rock, as was discovered when excavations were made in the attempt to dig it up. This work took several days, as care had to be taken not to injure the tooth, which, although cracked in places, was otherwise in excellent condition...