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...Palestinian digger is bearded Dominican Father Roland de Vaux (described by a colleague as "rather a dandy for a Dominican"). At Tell el-Farah, near Nablus in central Palestine, he found a likely spot, staked out a 40-acre claim. On the surface were iron age remains, rather recent for the Holy Land. Below, the bronze age began. Father de Vaux believes that he may prove his city to be ancient Tirzah, first capital of the secessionist Kingdom of Israel, which Jeroboam split off from Judah after the death of Solomon about...
...Best Years of Our Lives" as the best moving picture of 1946 and oscared William Wyler, it director, for the best job of movie direction of the past year. In the 1946 film field, foreign entries such as "Henry V," "Brief Encounter," "Open City," and "The Well-Digger's Daughter" far outdistanced the general run of American film productions in artistic excellence. Most U. S. films seem to suffer from a Hollywood occupational disease that can best be described as a sugary phoniness, a candied insincerity. "The Best Years of Our Lives," it is pleasing to report, is a notable...
...years of Washington correspondence, drawling, Pulitzer Prizewinner Thomas Lunsford Stokes has built a reputation much like that of his onetime boss and friend, the late Raymond Clapper. Washington knew him to be, like Clapper, a hard digger, a writer whose prose has no wings, a liberal whose roots are not Marxian but native. Stokes is also a man with a merciless conscience: by sympathy a New Dealer from the start, he won his Pulitzer Prize by exposing a WPA vote-getting machine in Senator Alben Barkley's Kentucky...
Died. Raimu (real name: Jules Auguste Muraire), 63, great French stage and cinema comedian (The Baker's Wife, The Well-Digger's Daughter); of a heart attack; in Neuilly, France...
...these earliest Americans-Folsom Man, Sandia Man, Cochise Man-not a single bone has yet been found. But weapons, gnawed animal bones and camp sites indicate his existence beyond dispute. The first archeologist to find the authentic bones of a Pleistocene American will be the most famous digger in the Western Hemisphere...