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Died. Dr. William F. Albright, 80, dean of U.S. biblical archaeologists; of a stroke; in Baltimore. His books, which include such well-known works as From the Stone Age to Christianity and The Archaeology of Palestine, are considered primers for laymen and serious students alike. But Albright, professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins, was perhaps best known for his field work during the 1920s and '30s when he perfected the use of potsherds as dating yardsticks...
George B. Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, is the 1971 winner of the American Chemistry Society's Joseph Priestley Medal, the highest honor in American chemistry...
...gold medal--given each year to recognize distinguished service to chemistry--will be presented to Kistiakowsky at the society's national meeting in Boston next April. Kistiakowsky, 70, became professor emeritus on July 1 after 40 years at Harvard...
...made an expedition to Easter Island, 2,350 miles west of Chile, and another bestseller, Aku-Aku, resulted. But then he bought a 13th century terra cotta chateau above the Ital ian Riviera and settled down to a comfortable life of sun-kissed scholarship. Had Thor Heyerdahl become adventurer emeritus? Not quite...
Many of the old leaders, modern masters who held sway over the youthful poetic imagination for years, have now been dismissed or at least promoted to emeritus status by a generation that has little patience with the cerebral and the courtly. Scores of collegiate poets and critics questioned by TIME correspondents on campuses across the U.S. found T.S. Eliot "irrelevant," Robert Frost "too provincial," Dylan Thomas a "phony Welshman," W.H. Auden "a poet for the middle-aged." These men still have admirers, but they lack followers. If among the enshrined elders the seating order has been changed...