Word: archeologist
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...fool even the dunces in the back row. Its producer-director-star, airy Leslie Howard, played the same leading role seven years ago in The Scarlet Pimpernel. Then he was an 18th-Century English lord, airily rescuing French aristocrats imperiled by the Revolution; now he is a peripatetic British archeologist, airily saving scientists from Hitler...
...Cambridge archeologist, Horatio Smith (Leslie Howard) is welcomed to the Germany of 1939; he has a Nazi commission to dig for traces of an Aryan civilization. In the process of proving that the progress of civilization depends on a few gifted people (mostly scientists, naturally), he excavates 20-odd live German scientists out from under the Gestapo noses...
...October just before he was to be installed. In a troubled period for Jews everywhere-and especially at a time when Reform Jewry has shown a decided trend toward Orthodoxy and a much greater interest in Jewish history-Dr. Glueck is a good choice. He is an outstanding Biblical archeologist, was the youngest director in history of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, proved the veracity of many a moot Old Testament text by his diggings...
...Ecuador bounced Gestapoman Walter Guisse, announced German Archeologist Franz Spillman was a spy who had taken refuge with the Peruvian Army...
These are among the cheerful points of Aztec history mustered by Archeologist George Clapp Vaillant of the American Museum of Natural History in his new book Aztecs of Mexico (Doubleday Doran; $4). Assembling the wealth of new historical evidence dug up since William Hickling Prescott finished his great Conquest of Mexico in 1843, it will muffle the sighs which four generations have sighed over "the tragic destruction of a great culture by lustful Spanish barbarians...