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GODS, GRAVES & SCHOLARS (426 pp.)-C. W. Ceram-Knopf...
...moment was a thought theatrical. Yet, as C. W. Ceram shows in Gods, Graves & Scholars, in archeology, the theatrical climax is commonplace. Ceram, a West German book editor who has made archeology his hobby, set out to do for his subject what Paul de Kruif did long ago for bacteriology in Microbe Hunters. The result is a highly readable series of biographical profiles: of the Frenchman, Jean François Champollion, who unriddled the ancient babble of the Rosetta Stone; of Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon, who dug up King Tut, and of several more. The biographical sketches carry...
Every Dutchman fears that Japan may some day seize the large island oil reserves of Java, Sumatra, Borneo and Ceram in the Netherlands Indies. Last week Dutch planters and oil men rejoiced to learn that Queen Wilhelmina is resolved to defend them to the last. Dutch Defense Minister Laurentius Nicolas Deckers, orating before the Dutch Parliament, declared that Japan will never dare to send more than one-tenth of her fleet to attack Borneo which is 3,000 miles from Japan...