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Missing bones mystery dogs Peking Man to CIA

Does. anyoné © know

anything about The Peking

Man Mystery? :
Does anyone really know
_ what happened to’ the
ig bones of the Peking
n?

JIE 80, contact Harry.
CBC-TV’s multi--

ree id winning producer-
director-writer,

television film about,
naturally, The Peking Man

Mystery. He considers it “a

real-life adventure story,
demanding

:CBC-TV special,
completed, will be shown on
.the network in a future

season.
~The frue-life sto started

50 years, ago,’ when Dr...

Davidson Black of Toronto
(not: an anthropologist nor

who is.
_currently: -working on a:

to be told on.
film,” and his resulting -
when’

archaeologist, but an
anatomist) was working. at
the Peking Medical College.
A tooth is brought to him. He
discovers that it is neither
- animal nor human — it
- could belong to the “missing
link” in the metamorphosis
of’ animal-to-man. An in-
ternational ‘“‘dig’’ at the site

‘of the find, Dragon Bone Hill.

in . China, reveals the
remains of about 30 to 40.
individuals’ -- Dr. Black
and his associates believe -
the bones are at least a half-
million.years old.

Dr. Black, not only a
scientist but’ an expert |
amateur’ film-maker, -films
the events of discovery and -
the colorful surroundings of
Peking 1926; by a series of
coincidences, Harry Rasky.
has that remarkable film -
(kept in a humidifier for_

some 50 years), and will
incorporate it into The
Peking Man Mystery. It will
be the first time that ex-

clusive film material will.

even be seen. He has also
lecated Dr. Black’s son to
commentate that ‘portion of
the TV special.

But to get back to the

“bones” of the real-life
mystery: It is December 7,
1941, the fatal -“‘day-of in-
famy” when the Japanese
‘attacked Pearl Harbour and
the United States was at
war. The bones of the
‘Peking Man are being
moved. for safe-keeping to
the United States, under the
-custody of the U.S. Marines.
A journey is begun, but
never completed. |

What ‘ha appened!? Are the.

‘bones ‘still in . existence

somewhere? . Harry Rasky]

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_ be held from August 3rd to
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‘Because it is twenty-five
- years since the publication

- recommendations to en-
courage artistic develop-
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~ by the Canadian Institute on
Public Affairs, will focus on
the state of the Arts today
and look at policy questions
for the future. -

Speakers include: Cliarles
Director of . the
Canada Coucil; Hon. Robert

. 0f the Massey Report with - Welch, Minister of Culture.

and Recreation, Ontario;
Tom Forrestal, a Nova
Scotia painter; Walter
Kaasa, Assistant Deputy

Minister, Alberta. Culture;

Gilles | Lefebvre Director, |}.
Canadian Culture in Paris; -.
J.J. Douglas, a Vancouver .
publisher; Maryon Kan-. | -

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1972 Stars David Janssen,

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‘crew ‘that knows nothing about
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dangerous: mission. Foe

has assembled: a “peal ‘life.

cast” of characters for his
-film — people who relive
that. day in Peking, 1941.
They have a story to tell, but
all have : different
terpretations ‘of the same
story. Shades of Rashomon.
Add to the ‘‘cast”
Christopher
millionaire
businessman’ and
‘venturer:— filmed at the
Explorers Club and at the
‘top of the Empire State

Buildirigin New York — who:

has re-awakened the long-
dead séarch for the bones,
_ with his offer of a. $150, 000.
reward. |

in-.

Janus,
Chicago.
ad-

Rasky’s. film search tor a

the missing bones will take -

Plevers to the desert hills of
the m rn history of China
further to the relics of ‘the
lon ng history of Chinese
civilization. It concerns. an
international

the CIA, possibly even the

eles, back through |
and its wartime agony, back —

“manhunt” |. 7
which may involve the FBI, .

Howard Hughes.

organization, ‘the Chinese a
the US. .

Communists, :
Marine Intelligence. The
Peking Man Mystery. could

‘have been written by - -

Agatha Christie.

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