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...unknown men requires great care and precision. Where each item is found will tell when in time it was last used. What objects it is near may give an indication of its use. To get all the information he can from the objects that do turn up, the archaeologist must uncover them slowly and methodically, and then exercise a combination of induction and educated guessing...
...more romantic figure emerged from World War I than the shadowy desert raider in flowing white burnoose known as Lawrence of Arabia. Here was a pint-sized Oxford archaeologist who could outride the fiercest Bedouin warrior, a galloping ghost who had blown up 79 bridges along the Turkish-held Hejaz Railway (and mourned he had not made it 80), an Englishman hailed by the Arabs as El Aurens, who in 2½ years had led the revolt in the desert from the Red Sea port of Jidda to the gates of Damascus. Then, with his chosen prophet, Emir Feisal, about...
...Scottish nanny, Sara Maden. Assuming the name of Lawrence, the two proved a faithful couple and produced five sons (Thomas was the second). But the discovery of his father's misbehavior so shocked Lawrence that he forswore sex. He turned to digging up the past as an archaeologist, becoming an expert on crusaders' castles, an Arabic linguist, and boon companion to Arabs, including handsome young Sheik Ahmed, who (Nutting notes) may be the subject of Pillars' dedicatory love poem. Currently, Nutting is acting as adviser to Hollywood Producer Sam Spiegel, now photographing a $6,000,000 epic...
...informal dinner meeting to inaugurate Radcliffe's experimental program. Among the first group of part-time scholars appointed in June are three historians, a lawyer, a musician, a philosopher, two poets, two painters, specialists in English, Swedish and Spanish literature, an art historian, a political scientist, an archaeologist and an educational psychologist. They range in age from the late twenties to the late fifties. Six of the scholars hold the A.M. degree, while seven have earned the Ph.D. as well. The rest have done graduate study except for one who has no formal college training...
Accent (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). A tour of the ruins of the Roman seaport Ostia Antica, with Yale Archaeologist-Classicist Dr. Frank Brown...