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...series of historical novellas are embedded in a meandering contemporary narrative. They run through 12,000 years and 909 pages and include disquisitions on mythology, theology, sociology, philosophy, ethics, political science and the history of religions. The contemporary narrative describes the excavation of Tell Makor, a fictitious mound in northwestern Israel. At each of 15 chronological levels, extending in time from 10,000 B.C. to A.D. 1948, the archaeologists make a significant discovery, and for each discovery the author produces an illustrative tale...
...fees munificent, and, what with paperbacks, they not only can get anything published, but published for gold. Then there are the foundations. If one can't get a Guggenheim, one can always get a Ford, and if not a Ford, a Rockefeller. At the last meeting of the Northwestern University Finnegans Wake Society, a discussion group of professors and friends, eleven of the 14 members reported they were going to Europe for the summer-and not paying for their trips. For intellectuals, the greeting "Good Day," it has been suggested, should be replaced by "Fair Fulbright...
...Donald F. Turner, 44, Harvard Law professor, will become Assistant U.S. Attorney General in charge of the antitrust division. A Phi Beta Kappa (Northwestern), Turner took a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard, earned a law degree at Yale, where he met Nicholas Katzenbach, now Attorney General. Turner was Katzenbach's personal choice to replace William Orrick, who is resigning. A consultant to both the Government and private industry in top antitrust cases, Turner has written widely on the subject, is considered an expert with a tough approach. In Antitrust Policy: An Economic and Legal Analysis, a book that Turner...
...More businessmen are going back to school to teach. Nearly 15% of Detroit University's business faculty are returnees from business. Chairman John Barr will soon leave Montgomery Ward to become dean of Northwestern's business school. A substantial number of executives now teach part time or temporarily. Former General Counsel Leland Hazard of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. gives a culture course at Carnegie Tech, and Ford Financial Vice President Theodore Yntema will lead seminars there this fall. Paul M. Mazur, a Lehman Bros. partner, is a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School...
...Henry Adams," a three-volume work published by the Harvard University Press and written by Ernest Samuels, chairman of the department of English at Northwestern University, received the prize for biography. This is the second consecutive year that the University Press has been the publisher of the Pulitzer Prize winning biography. Jones, teaching this spring at Stanford University, said last night that he was surprised and "quite thrilled" by the announcement of the award...