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These frank sentiments of the late, annoyingly literary George Moore got some rich encouragement last week. The best-known photographer of Harper's Bazaar had turned his glamorizing lenses on Gizeh and Thebes (see cuts). Baron George Hoyningen-Huene (pronounced Hoyningen-Hew-ney), 43, collaborated with Egyptologist George Steindorff, formerly of Leipzig University, in the publication of a super-glossy picture book with a short but solid text, Egypt (J. J. Augustin; $7.50). Fashion photographer Hoyningen-Huene went at his job with self-evident Schiaparelish; he romanticized immemorial stone as effectively as he ever did laces and velvets...
Died. Dr. George Andrew Reisner, 74, famed Harvard Egyptologist; in Gizeh, Egypt. He discovered the tomb of Queen Hetep-heres, mother of Cheops, uncovered the first rich evidences of the civilization of the Fourth Dynasty. In 1911 he announced his answer to the "riddle of the Sphinx," identified it as a portrait of Chephren, Fourth Dynasty Pharaoh...
...Institute has since been operating mostly on the income from this, which amounts to about a third of the former yearly grants. Few other U. S. diggers are working the war-clouded Near East. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, however, has a party at Gizeh in Egypt, where it has labored continuously for 35 years, and where it unearthed among other treasures the gold-cased furniture of Queen Hetep heres I. The American Schools of Oriental Research have a party on the site of King Solomon's ancient Red Sea port (TIME, May 30, 1938) and an expedition...
Egypt. At Gizeh, near the great pyramids of Chephren and of Cheops, Professor Selim Hassan of Cairo gouged into a bank of mud and sand left by the encroaching Nile, came upon the limestone tomb of a princess whom he took to be the daughter of Chephren. This Pharaoh was of the Fourth Dynasty, which experts variously locate between 3,100 and 2,800 B. c. The sarcophagus was completely sealed with mortar, evidence that thieves had never broken...
Died. Elbridge Rand Herron, Manhattan mountain climber; by falling off the Second Pyramid; at Gizeh. Egypt...