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...literary prize. Not long ago while his assistant, Mlle. Nicole Parichon, was cleaning the plaster off a mummy, she spotted a piece of papyrus that looked unusual. Other pieces matched it, and eventually a dozen pieces fitted together. They turned out to be part of a long, rolled-up scroll that contained 400 lines of a hitherto unknown play of Menander, a Greek playwright who died in 290 B.C. It is one of the oldest Greek manuscripts known, but the writing is almost as clear as fresh print...
...widely acknowledged as the first wife of the oft-married Mexican revolutionary. After a raid by Villa in 1916, Columbus counted 16 dead. But now, said New Mexico's Governor Jack Campbell, "the bitterness of long ago can be forgotten.'' Tearfully, Mrs. Villa accepted a scroll, responding in turn with gifts to the Pancho Villa Museum of Columbus: her husband's field telephone and a $1,000,000 bundle of currency issued at his command. Remaining at her 52-room mansion in Chihuahua City was the bullet-riddled 1920 Dodge in which Villa met his death...
From Emperor to Monk. The Crawford collection ranges from pages out of ancient albums to calligraphic couplets, from spectacular wall scrolls to hand scrolls that were meant to be seen only a few inches at a time. There are scenes of jolly drunkenness and of men contemplating a waterfall, paintings ranging from lofty landscapes to spare sprays of bamboo, the nearest thing in nature to calligraphy. One 22-ft. hand scroll showing a series of great palaces is a work of art so intricate that it seems like a series of fantasies by some Oriental Piranesi. Yet recent excavations...
There had been the moment when Ravello's mayor presented Jackie with a parchment scroll making her an honorary citizen. Speaking in slightly imperfect Italian, she said: "I am very happy that the only place to which I belong outside my own country is Ravello, a beautiful city in one of the countries I love most-where people are so noble and gentle, and where my daughter and I have passed days of peace and happiness." There was a reception afterward, the band played a specially composed march, Jacqueliniana and the Marine Corps Hymn-the leader, for some reason...
...psalm comes from the most important of recent Dead Sea Scroll discoveries: a blackened, decaying goatskin Psalter that was dug up near Wadi Qumran by a Bedouin in 1956. After long and careful treatment, the scroll was unrolled by James A. Sanders, professor of Old Testament at Colgate Rochester Divinity School. "All it required." said Dr. Sanders, who took ten days for the delicate job, "was a penknife, a humidifier and guts." Written down between A.D. 30 and 50, the Psalter scroll was presumably used for worship by the Essenes-a community of Jewish ascetics who were wiped...