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...Gibb was the only European member of the Egyptian Academy of the Arabic Languages in Cairo, and was also a fellow of the British and Danish Academies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Islam Scholar Dies in England | 10/30/1971 | See Source »

...Hamilton A. R. Gibb, University Professor emeritus and Jewett Professor of Arabic emeritus, died October 22 in England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Islam Scholar Dies in England | 10/30/1971 | See Source »

...Gibb, a leading Islamic scholar, came to Harvard in 1955. Two years later, he became first director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, a post he held until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Islam Scholar Dies in England | 10/30/1971 | See Source »

...Gibb's academic world ranged from pre-Islamic times to current Middle East affairs. He edited the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Islam, sponsored by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and also authored several works on Arabic history, religion and literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Islam Scholar Dies in England | 10/30/1971 | See Source »

...Russ Gibb, disk jockey for Detroit radio station WKNR, had a startling announcement. Paul McCartney of the Beatles, he said, has been dead for several years, and is being impersonated by a double. Gibb figured it all out from two Beatles album covers. The new Abbey Road cover, he explained, shows Ringo Starr dressed as an undertaker, George Harrison as a gravedigger, and John Lennon as a religious personage. Paul is dressed hi a normal suit and is barefoot-the mark of a corpse laid out for burial in Italy. The license plate on a parked Volkswagen reads "281F," meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 24, 1969 | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

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