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Swiftly Chicago's faculty rallied to the defense. Cried famed Orientalist James Henry Breasted: "Mr. Walgreen can hardly be unaware of the publicity value of his premature and regrettable use of the daily Press. Nor is it likely that his own publicity agents are unacquainted with the value of this inexpensive form of advertising. ... At the hands of our Huey Longs and Father Coughlins our inherited institutions are indeed in danger. It may be a fair question to ask whether the author of such a destructive public attack . . . has disclosed such a complete lack of any sense of social...
...basement of the Victoria & Albert Museum and in the Buddhist Room of the British Museum last week curators and assistants were ripping open boxes and crates, carefully lifting out ancient bits of precious porcelain. Busy with a group of 200 antique Chinese paintings. Orientalist Laurence Binyon prophesied that a 13th Century landscape that he was cataloging will be one of the British Museum's most popular treasures. Keeper of Oriental Antiquities Robert Lockhart Hobson was most excited about a green bronze ram dating from 1200 B. c. and valued at ?10,000. And there was plenty more: Ming vases...
Died. Mrs. Frances Hart Breasted, 61, wife and companion on most expeditions of University of Chicago's Orientalist James Henry Breasted; of bacterial endocarditis; in Chicago...
James Henry Breasted, famed Orientalist of the University of Chicago, announced he was going back to work on King Tut-Ankh-Amen's tomb in March. Of the Sunday-supplement "Curse of the Pharaohs," which is supposed to kill off Egyptian tomb-snoopers and which was revived last fortnight by the death of famed British Egyptologist Arthur E. P. B. Weigall (TIME, Jan. 15), Professor Breasted chortled: "All tommyrot! I defy that curse. And if anyone was exposed to it I was. For two weeks I slept in the tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amen and took my meals...
Married. Charles Breasted, 33, executive secretary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, son of famed Orientalist James Henry Breasted, director of the Institute; and Violet E. Timms. 24, of Harrow, Middlesex, England; in Manhattan...