Word: pre-columbian
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...World's antiquity. There was a time when the artifacts, pottery, votive offerings and idols reclaimed from the soil were handed over to children as playthings or used as targets for Sunday pistol practice. But today archaeologists are alert to seize them as invaluable clues to mysterious, pre-Columbian cultures that send their roots back some 30 centuries. And art lovers now view them as art expressions of rare value...
Bill Pearson, 35, a 106-lb. jockey who is an art expert with a leaning toward pre-Columbian primitives, had a tough going-over before he initially appeared on CBS's The $64,000 Question. Like any other promising candidate, he was thoroughly screened. The Question likes candidates to be "attractive TV characters" (i.e., "characters" without being too odd), to display a paradoxical facet of personality (e.g., a cop who likes Shakespeare or a Southerner who digs Lincoln), and to demonstrate a certain expertise in a chosen field of knowledge. For two hours a day on four consecutive days...
Died. Walter Conrad Arensberg, 75, one of the world's leading art collectors, who in 1950 presented his 1,000-piece, $2,000,000 collection of 20th century and pre-Columbian art to the Philadelphia Museum of Art; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A firm believer that Shakespeare's plays were actually written by Francis Bacon, Arensberg wrote numerous books on the subject, founded the Francis Bacon Foundation to carry on research...
...assemble a monument to the American past, and over the years collected examples of the best works of the painters of the U.S. frontier: George Catlin, Frederic Remington, Charles Russell and some 250 others. He also bought masterpieces by Homer, Whistler and Sargent, and a collection of pre-Columbian gold work. Among his 70,000 books and manuscripts are a copy of the Declaration of Independence signed by Benjamin Franklin, the first letter ever written from the New World to the Old (by Christopher's son Diego Columbus), the original of a letter commissioning Paul Revere as a messenger...
...Heritages Resurgent. The sons of the revolution appear to have learned to cherish equally their Indian and Spanish Christian heritages. Having accepted their past, they are ceasing to brood over it. Today it is fashionable in Mexico to collect pre-Columbian art, to dabble in archaeology, to wear Indian costumes and to study Indian customs. At the same time the Roman Catholic Church, long suppressed and persecuted by anticlerical revolutionists, is resurgent in Mexico. All over the country new modern churches are rising to replace those wrecked in the revolution. Nuns and priests wear their habits and cassocks in public...