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...fair," then plunges on in its narrative. With this tempting morsel, readers have been left for centuries to wonder at the beauty that turned the head of the Pharaoh of Egypt. Last week, with scholarly remoteness from war, Jerusalem's Dr. Yigael Vadin published his latest Dead Sea Scroll translation-part of a document earlier identified as an apocryphal Book of Genesis (TIME, Feb. 20). The scroll did justice to Sarah's beauty with an ecstatic, head-to-toe description of her charms...
...presentation took place in Moscow on August 25, when the Lampoon's Culinator (i.e. chief cook) Elling Eide '57 visited the Krokodil offices to present them with a scroll and a perpetual subscription to the Lampoon. Eide claims that the Russians were "overjoyed...
...scroll said, ". . . laughter, in time, can form the basis for a better mutual understanding." The editors of Krokodil thought that a recent article decrying "Rock and Roll" was especially good as it obviously decried "Art for Art's sake." This, they added, is "progressive." Lampoon poetry was hailed by the Soviets for its "realistic attitude...
...Similarities. John M. Allegro (The Dead Sea Scrolls; Pelican; 85?) is a bright young (33) British expert on Semitic languages who worked for a year on the international team of scholars that is piecing together and translating the scroll fragments in Jerusalem. Back at Manchester University (where he now occupies a teaching post in comparative Semitic philology), bearded John Allegro turned his reputation for brightness to one for brashness; he drew a public rebuke from his fellow scholars (TIME, April 2) when he suggested that the New Testament's Jesus Christ may have been modeled on the scrolls...
...sweeping front lawn. Checking on imports from the Orient (a service" the museum performs gratis for some art importers) has also tipped Fuller off to good buys, set him up to get in first bids to dealers. Thanks to Fuller, the museum today owns the only Japanese broken ink scroll by Sesshu (TIME, May 14) outside Japan; its 16th century Japanese water jar (bought by Fuller for $1,600) is a mate to one of Japan's "national treasures...