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Schlesinger, along with Theodore C. Blegen of the University of Minnesota, Henry Steele Commanger of Columbia, and U.S. Archivist Wayne Grover, was first called in several months ago to discuss safe-guarding the presidential papers for posterity...
Garrulous Old Boy. North of the Bay of Pylos in Greece, the University of Cincinnati's Archeologist Carl William Blegen unearthed fire-scarred remains of a building which he identified as the palace of Nestor, ancient king of Pylos-the garrulous old boy of the Iliad and Odyssey who was always dishing out advice and talking about his early exploits. Pottery found on the floors was dated near the close of the 13th Century B. C., putative time of the siege of Troy. Digger Blegen declared that more than 600 clay tablets, apparently bearing lists of persons, inventories...