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FRANCES G. A. MILLAR Alexander...
Professor Millar Burrows of Yale will present a lecture entitled "The Dead Sea Scrolls" next Wednesday, October 3, at 8:15 p.m. The lecture will take place in the Morse Auditorium of the Science Museum in Science Park, Boston...
...SCROLLS FROM THE DEAD SEA, by Edmund Wilson (121 pp.; Oxford; $3.25), and THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS, by Millar Burrows (435 pp.; Viking; $6.50), deal with the fascinating manuscripts-Biblical texts, commentaries and Essene writings-found in a cave near the Dead Sea by two Arab boys in 1947 (TIME, Sept. 5). Wilson's book is a graceful, thorough piece of reporting. Burrows, a Yale expert, analyzes the scrolls in detail, shows at precisely what points they may fill in chinks in Biblical history...
Macdonald, who also has written as Kenneth Millar, is one of the best of the hard-boiled school now practicing. A student of the work of a fellow Californian, Old Master Raymond Chandler, he has learned his lessons well, even to the similes: "His face was like a worn saddle ridden by circumstance.'' He has the same intelligent regard for settings: "It was a good residential suburb, where people turned their backs on small beginnings and looked to larger futures." With Dashiell Hammett no longer producing and Raymond Chandler showing signs of weariness, Macdonald is just...
Shortly after 9 a.m., his quiet "Good morning, where is the mail?" starts his private office staff fluttering. The first half-hour goes to the mail, the second to reviewing the pile of cables decoded during the night. His first conference is with Minister Sir Frederick Hoyer Millar, a veteran of 26 years in Britain's Foreign Service and the Ambassador's alter ego. The morning's problem may be anything from London's attitude on the Austrian peace treaty to an analysis of how to soothe ruffled U.S. feelings over the Anglo-Argentine trade treaty...