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...HARRY L. SHAPIRO 190 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...whose bones, unearthed from a quarry outside the Chinese capital in 1926, disappeared when the Japanese invaded the capital 15 years later. The two leading hunters have now written books. Christopher Janus, a Chicago businessman and amateur anthropologist, has spent a small fortune on the search. Professor Harry Shapiro, chairman emeritus of the American Museum of Natural History's department of anthropology, has been pursuing the missing bones ever since the war. In that time he has followed up scores of tips from strange people who are rarely willing to give their names. A typical phonecaller told Shapiro that...
...Japanese arrived. In the confusion, the bones were lost. Or were they stolen? Over the years only one informant, a woman who said she was the widow of one of the Marines, claimed to have the bones in her possession. In 1972 she agreed to meet Janus and Shapiro on the observation deck of the Empire State Building, produced a photograph of what looked like the bones and offered to sell them for $500,000. But she fled, when a tourist seemed to be taking her picture. Since then, no one has been able to locate...
Lvonida Rasenas, a sophomore, provided the only bright spot of the weekend, as she made it all the way to the finals in the fencing tournament held in Brandeis's Shapiro Gymnasium. Rasenas, competing in the intermediate class, finished sixth in the event...
...David L. Shapiro, associate dean of the Law School, also said the Griswold plan is "more attractive than the Freund proposal...