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...hand along the top of the bedroom door. He found what he wanted, a wooden stopper plugging a ten inch hole. The room's occupants helped their visitor take the door off its hinges, and with a corkscrew they removed the plug. Inside, they found a parchment tied up in an orange ribbon...
...contents of the invaluable "Fourth Dead Sea Scroll" remain a mystery today. Discovered four years ago in Palestine, the scroll was brought to Harvard's Fogg Art Museum in 1949 to be unrolled. But 18 months ago, the owner suddenly decided that the parchment should remain unopened...
...claimed that the leather had become stiff and "gelatinized." Opening the scroll would be similar to the process of unwrapping a cigar. He finally concluded that it would be feasible to unroll the parchment, although the project involved the danger that it would be harmed. Gettens could not give the Archbishop absolute assurance that the 2,000-year-old leather would not be some-what damaged in the process...
Suddenly, on May 23, 1950, John P. Coolidge '35. Director of the Fogg Art Museum, announced that the Archbishop had decided against returning the parchment to Fogg to have it opened...
...Course, stretching like a shepherd's crook across the dunes, still belongs to the villagers of St. Andrews-and they have the papers to prove it. In 1552, a parchment provided that the Archbishop of Hamilton might raise rabbits there if he also allowed the townspeople to continue their "golf, futball, schuting . . ." In the late 18th Century the town lost title to the land, but bought it back (for ?5,000) in 1894. To this day, anyone with the price of the greens fee (three shillings and sixpence-about 50?) can play at St. Andrews...