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...between Dawson Creek and Whitehorse while the second expedition, starting in May of 1944, explored the country between Whitehorse and Fairbanks. The members of the party included Raup, his wife, and their two sons, S. K. Harris of Boston University, John H. H. Sticht, glacial geologist, and Frederick Johnson, archeologist...
With the speed of enlightenment, Mr. Jayne emerged from the subway, tore into the Metropolitan Museum of which he is vice director (he is also an archeologist and a promotion man), and laid the idea before Director Francis H. Taylor. Director Taylor took fire. He called up the New York Subways Advertising Co. They were even more excited. The Great Art series, they said, would complete the company's subway editorial policy. They offered to donate the car-card space, pay half the cost of the plates...
...What should pop up in the Hudson Valley last week but Archeology itself. And the ferret that caused the pop was no Archeologist, Ph. D., but a Girl Scout. Ten-year-old Betty Lou Norris of Brooklyn and other Scouts had listened to lectures on Indians, went hunting rock shelters. In one shelter near New York's Kanawauke Lake, Scout Norris spied charred deer bones. She yipped to her friends; they yipped to William Henry Carr, head of Bear Mountain Trailside Museum. Inured to the "discoveries" of amateur archeologists, he went and had a skeptical look. Whereupon, knowing...
...Roots. Professorial chambers are anywhere from twice to four times the size of those enjoyed at most rich universities. Paleographer Elias Avery Lowe got extra windows so that he might decipher ancient texts without eyestrain. Archeologist Ernst Herzfeld got a sunken floor to admit outsize cases for Persian treasures. Salaries are above general scholarly levels. No professor has administrative chores. Professors may have vacations of about three months twice a year-but rarely take them...
...Bulgaria's King Boris stormed at his docile Premier Bogdan Filoff that the Premier's policy had "led the country and dynasty toward catastrophe." Archeologist Filoff seemed an improbable candidate for the blame...