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Show 'MERMAID' IDEA BLASTED AT "U" Professors at the University of Utah are not only called upon to render knowledge service to the students of the state school, but recently one was called upon to determine if a race of 'mermaids ever really existed. Dr. Angus M. Woodbury, of the Biology department at the University Universi-ty of Utah, was recently accosted by an Idaho woman with a shoe box containing what she believed to be an authentic mermaid. After a complete examination of the "mermaid", "mer-maid", Dr. Woodbury declared that it was a "fake", but a very good one. The "mermaid", which has beeti in the family's possession for over a century and is estimated to be over three centuries old, was brought to this country from Norway, Nor-way, where formerly the primitive people there believed in the "sirens from the sea." "The "mermaid", which was supposedly sup-posedly to have been found in the Norwegian Sea, was composed of a mumlfied monkey's head with all the bones Intact", said Dr. Woodbury, Wood-bury, "a body minus a back bone and composed of stuffed amphibian skin with spiral-like ribs distinctly showing; the tail of a fish and amphibian am-phibian appendages for arms with fingers moulded and glued apart with parchment." That the 'mermaid' was found out to be mot a 'mermaid' but rather rath-er a beautiful hoax, was because the ribs "went around and around" instead of coming out where they should have, at the sternum. |