Word: archaeologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taylor is no archaeologist, but his vice director, Horace Howard Furness Jayne, once did a lot of digging in China. Both got their start in the Philadelphia Museum. Taylor went on to make the Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum one of the most active small-city galleries in the country. In 1940, when he was invited to take over the Met, he became the youngest (36) director in Met history...
...Hellmut de Terra, a geologist turned archaeologist, is not after gold, but bones and stones. In the last 15 years he has carried his pick over much of the world's surface on the trail of prehistoric man. Dr. de Terra's current quarry is the late Ice Age in central Mexico...
...better watch out because they're not all like that, and that 5 foot, 4 inch brunette with the business experience may be a woman Marine, or a WAC. For the WAVE, although not Butcher, Baker, or Candlestick maker, could, right here in New England, be a cartographer, archaeologist, serologist, or a statistical epidemiologist. That might be dangerous...
Also among the fellows are four refugees from Europe; an Italian archaeologist, an Austrian novelist, a German psychologist, and a Polish mathematician, all described by the Guggenheim donors as "outstanding...
...novel, Ordeal, whisked readably through the harrowing experiences of a middle-class family during a raid on England by a thousand enemy bombers. Less exciting than Ordeal, Author Shute's An Old Captivity turns to a peacetime theme-the story of a British aviator who pilots an Oxford archaeologist and his daughter to Greenland in order to make aerial surveys of old Norse ruins. At his best in describing the flight itself, Author Shute complicates an already tough undertaking when Archaeologist Lockwood's daughter Alix decides to go along...