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Gerald Piel, publisher of Scientific American, will determine the winners. Charles W. Dunn, Master of Quincy House, will also serve on the panel of judges. commenting on Master Dunn's credentials, Reiser observed last night that "the Wright brothers are said to be of Celtic origin." Master Dunn is professor of Celtic Languages...
...nothing-about him. They could detail his gross income and net profits for February 1958, but they could not discover his exact birth date and wound up listing eight in the year 1911. They learned that his boyhood nickname was "Sparky," then gave three different reasons for the origin of the name...
Apostolic Origin? The Ethiopians are convinced that their Emperor, Haile Selassie, is a descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and that the Apostle Matthew first brought Christianity to their country. The claim is probably pure legend, since the first known Ethiopian bishop was a certain St. Frumentius, who was consecrated by the Patriarch of Alexandria in the 4th century. Along with the church of Egypt, Ethiopian Christians adopted the Monophysitic teaching that Jesus had one nature in which the human and divine were commingled-a doctrine that was condemned by the Council of Chalcedon...
...ignited before the previous one had burned out. No sooner had Director Rorimer read Hoving's graduate paper on Rome's Farnese gallery in 1959 than he hired him as a curatorial assistant to the Metropolitan. In a triumph of scholarship and taste, he personally deduced the origin of the rare Bury Saint Edmunds cross (TIME, June 19, 1964), purchased by the Met for $500,000. The young art historian rose to become curator of the Cloisters, the Met's medieval annex and Rorimer's former bailiwick. But before Hoving had the opportunity to effect great...
Embarrassing Impulse. To the consternation of French Communists, Kosygin seemed to go out of his way to praise De Gaulle-if only because Soviet policy calls for keeping the doors open to the West at any cost. "The emptiness in Franco-Soviet relations, whatever its origin may have been, is now an appendage of the past," he told De Gaulle. "The evolution of events in Europe has shown the benefits of a Franco-Soviet rapprochement." But Kosygin embarrassed his hosts when, at a purely ceremonial luncheon, he impulsively attacked what he called the resurgence of "the forces of fascism...