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It seems that reports of the death of Roy Chapman Andrews were greatly exaggerated…repeatedly.
Here we see a 1950 letter from Museum Vice-Director Wayne Faunce alerting Andrews to his untimely demise as reported by Time Magazine:
Judging by Andrews’s response to the magazine’s Editor, this was a common occurrence. He notes that learning of his own death was “an interesting discovery, but one to which I am not unaccustomed.”
This entry was written by Lauren VanDenBerg, Shelby White & Leon Levy Project Archivist.