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And Calco is continually seeking, through the develop 30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA, NEW YORK 20, N. Y. ment of dyes and colors for var 70 . THE SATURDAY EVENING POST August 6,19+9 {Continuedfrom Page 68) fellow townsman can announce that the most valuable in the of Maryville ahd, on the other, to potter he is off to hunt for bones as old as sin paleontology. Familiarity with dino- to his heart's.content amid old bones.' and actually return with a truckload saurs has bred a certain contempt for T3y the time he won his bachelor-of- of.them. . them in Colbert, who by now.knows arts degree, he had developed such a Despite the .careful groundwork laid almost as much about tbeir way of-life skillful hand-with them that he was by Colbert before he launches an expe- as he does about biis own. Inhisobses- perriutted to assemble, whole mam- elation, chance does occasionally take a sion with the dimynwaf: pages of the moths himself. hand. During his adventures with the earth's history, he has qome to regard' Eager to-proceed with postgraduate alligators, for example, he relaxed his them as mereJohnny-come-Iatelys, and work, Colbert applied for and was exertions long enough to go boating on until recently he had longed to lay his granted- an $1800- fellowship by' Co- ' the Caloosahatchee River. A few feet calipers on a.real old-timer. lumbia University, and there he plod- offshore, tearing up like the hulls of During the .summer of 1947, while ded through two more degrees--be- sunken ships, he spied the leg bone, he was travelingthrough New Mexico coming a master of artsand a doctor of ribs and vertebrae of a mastodon. In with two assistants, en route to Ari" philosophy. " ' themselves, mastodon bones are com- zona*- for a- routine reptile hunt, he .As an outgrowth of his doctor's paratively common, but none had ever passed Ghost Ranch, near Abiquiu, thesis, he produced a 400-page opus . been discovered so far. south in North New Mexico, the. 30,000-acre estate with the breezy title SiwaJik Mammals America, and this is the kind of fresh of Arthur N. Pack, publisher of Na- The summer time in the American Museum of Natioral data an alert paleontologist pounces ture Magazine and a -friend of .fossO History. It brought him one of! the . on'withglee. .... hunters. He decided to take a quick highest. honors that American science . The. most^freakish chance in Col- look! around. The expedition never presents a special can bestow--the Elliott Medal of the bert's experience led him to a choice, reached Arizona. National Academy of Sciences. . find not 200' feet from his own desk-- Half a mile from,themain house, in ..In 193.0, while Colbert was stOl at to the hilarity of the newspapers that a gulch, ope of the assistants, George Columbia, the American Museum ap- got wind of it. For years the museum Whitkker, dropped to his knees with a . pointed him research assistant, sub- hadhankered after a Java rhinoceros, shout of triumph. Embedded'in the . sequently.sending.him to Europe for an' almost extinct-species. One of its .sandy clay was a nmflll fossil claw; m--"You won'tfind me sitting out any dances on my vacation! If the. office further polish. To French and German, whichhe had alreadystudied, he added .erfeugh Italian and Spanish to be able to understand scientific papers in those trustees, Arthur S. Vemay, financed a series of costly expeditions to Java in the hope of' snaring one on the hoof; The natives would report seeing several Whitaker couldn't identify it for sure, but Colbert had no dbubts. It was a piece of CodbpAysia. a forerunner of all the dinosaurs from Tyrannosaurus rex schedule of vacations languages. In fecit, about, the only of them hanging around, but somehow to Brontosaurus. . doesn't work out just right language ih.which important fossil re-; they had always taken to the hills Only a few scattered bones had ever for me, I can still enjoy, ports are- written that he can't- make a few hours before Vemay's party ar- . been recovered before, the .complete myself by using,: Tampax fphr esaadniotarrytail of is Russian. But the riveth Meanwhile, in June of 1942, picture of.the creature being based protection. No cause ridges or bbeulltgsesoruenxdteerrnaSratnaeloecppvhvoaieerdtEntssinntpgogaalinlsedhontsrteoanlnodsg-liastthtisoenmosbtloiogninaghtolythtaehtie-r Colbert'1 was conducting a one-man expedition of his own in the mu- seum's attic. He Was rummaging on inductive reasoning. Believed to have been three feet high and six feet long, with heavy, powerful legs arid gown. No odor or chafing fromA.mTaemricpaanx Museum.'. ' among some Indian rhinoceros skulls, foreclaws that could rip its prey apart even under .hot-weather conditionDsu!"rin' g his early years at the mu- preparatory to writing a report, when at one stroke* Coelophysis slithered seum, Colbert formed an ideal com- he picked up one, lying there' for any-, across thecontinentalmost 200,000,000 MARY--"Tampax has beep parikmship with an equally serious- body to see, that bad a slightly differ- years ago. a blessing to me while tray- minded employee, Margaret Mat-, ent shape. Woriring,on! Ghost Ranch ah sum- . ding, in plane, .car or Pull man. Designed for internal. thew. Not only was Miss Matthew a scientific draftsman. Specializing in fossh drawings but the daughter of an ' "Feeling pretty sure what it was, I' mer,. the.expedition gathered together dug up some photographs of the Java a dozen complete skeletons ami evirhino," he relates. "The skulls matched dence of possibly six more buried use Tampax is' only one- able fossil hunter, the. late William perfectly. Then I compared the teeth, nearby. When-reassembled from skull ninth the bulk of sanitary Diher Matthew. It was inevitable That clinched it." to tail, they wfll furnish the-first proof napkins:' Think what they that, following daily exposure to each Blushing furiously for the museum, of what paleontologists have hitherto may save you in embarrassmeonthwehr eannd to. fossils, Colbert arid Mite be checked thelabel onthe skull against been able only to guess at. it's time.for disposal!" Matthew should marry. Mrs. Colbert the file catalogue and found that it had' In the summer of. 1948 .. Colbert still illustrates some of her husband's originally belonged to Prince Maximil- yielded to .invitations from numerous POLLY--''I like the scientific papers. She lias also produced since ian of Wied, a big-game hunter who had international scientific organizations . background of Tampax (it was invented by a doctor). 1937 five boys, none of ;whom, how- . sold, his collection of 1000 stuffed ani- ever, as yet evinces much interest in mals to the museum same seventy years fossils. earlier. ; to attend their meetings in Europe. The experience was gratifying,. but could not'compensate .him for his absence WB and the real quality of it-- The home life of a fossil hunter, as " Maximilian should have recognized from his beloved hunting grounds. The nothing but pure surgical exemplified by Colbert, presents a . it when be got it," Colbert says sternly. summer of 1949 had not yet begun cotton throughout, firmly sharp contrast to the high adventure For several months nobody enlight- when Colbert was back at Ghost Ranch and contained in patented applicators. It gives me great confidence, to use Tampax!" of the field and laboratory. He owns a enedVernay, who had givenup his Java digging for Codophyses. He is happy in two-story shingle house standing on a expeditions'in despair of ever finding the thbught of trying to determine small plot in the placid suburb of: even part of a rhino. "We were afraid what made them tick, during the next Leonia, New Jersey, half an hour by to tell him," Colbert explains. decade or two. What are decades to a bus and subway from the museum. Chance also led Colbert to the crown- manwho measures time in millenniums? Buy Tampax at drug or notion counters. $ and, when approaching it, he tries to mg discovery of his career, and one of t he end absorbencies: Regular., Super, Junior.. A full dismiss from his mind all antediluvian month's average supply will slip into your thoughts. purse. Prepare now. Look for Tampax Vendor "Otherwise I might get into a rut," in restrooms throughout the United States. he says, adding significantly, "Some Tampax Incorporated, Palmer, Mass. paleontologists talk and think shop all the time. Apt to make a man un balanced." Colbert's day begins at six-thirty, when .he rises to help Mrs. Colbert wash, clothe and feed their progeny. He also prepares his lunch, usually a sandwich, which he carries to the mu seum in a-paper bag, so that,he will not have to waste time in a restaurant away from his fossils. The curators are expected to report for work at ten. Colbert is invariably in his office, a long, white-walled room, by nine, and he seldom sticks his nose out of the TAMPAX INCORPORATED Palmer. Mass. S-6-S9-S Please send me in plain wrapper a trial package of Tampax. I enclose 10i (stamps or silver) to cover cosc of mailing. Size is checked-below. ( ) REGULAR ( ) SUPER ( ) JUNIOR Name_____________________ Address building until after five. With the approach of spring, how ever, a familiar gleam comes into Col bert's eyes. By the first of June he is headed for the fossil lands, duffel bag slung over his shoulder. What fasci nates and baffles the citizens of Leonia, who follow this seasonal trek with CjtyState ________ huge interest, is how their shy, quiet