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Irak. On a plain beside the muddy Tigris lies Tepe Gawra ("Great Mound") in which trial trenches have indicated 20 or more settlements extending far back into the Stone Age. After clearing the Eleventh Level with gratifying results (TIME, March 18, 1935), Digger Charles Bache proceeded with the Twelfth Level, dated at 4000 B. C. Here were massive walls coated with plaster, earliest known use of lime, and much pottery decorated with reddish geometrical designs, presumably left by "The Painted Pottery Peoples" who first overran India, Persia and Mesopotamia about 6000 B. C. A sharply emerging concept of personal property...
...Philadelphia last week Digger Bache and Director Ephraim A. Speiser of the American School of Oriental Research announced the discovery, between Levels Eleven and Twelve, of a temple-fortress built 3,000 years before the earliest mention of such structures in the Old Testament, and which they called "unique in prehistory." The building was circular and its walls, of sun-dried brick, were more than a yard thick. Twelve rooms were laid out around the circle, and across it were three rectangular rooms in series. The diggers believed that the largest was a cult-room and that a small anteroom...
...Chicago Tribune and of Samuel Insull, who wanted the competing Hinman light plant eliminated. When Mayor Busse started to put the Hinman plant out of business, Publisher Hinman assigned Walter Howey to dig up dirt on the Mayor. Two months of burglary, bribery, and tireless sleuthing by Digger Howey filled a black suitcase with material which was spread in the Inter-Ocean. Shortly thereafter Mayor Busse died suddenly...
Despite its backing of Mayor Busse, the Tribune was so impressed by Digger Howey that it hired him as city editor at four times his old salary. There he distinguished himself by ridding Chicago of a horde of quack doctors specializing in venereal disease. His strategy was to send out, as a prospective "patient," a reporter who had a clean bill of health from a reputable physician. In the reporter's pocket would be a savings bankbook showing a modest balance. The "patient" would tearfully confess to the quack that he was about to be married but had reason...
...Stuart, who seems to grow more beautiful in each succeeding picture. Adolphe Menjou takes the part of the eccentric producer who displays more loquaciousness than money to Grant Mitchell, the irate manager of the ultra fashionable Wentworth Plaza resort hotel. Glenda Farrell again inherits the role of the gold-digger who sets her cap for Hugh Herbert, an idle multi-millionaire with a penchant for writing monograms and collecting antique snuff boxes. Alice Brady, as the close-fisted millionaire mother of Gloria Stuart and Frank McHugh, does her acting in the exaggerated mode of the whole production. Judged...