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Last week in the U.S. quarterly Archaeology, a plausible solution came from an amateur: a young (31) London architect named Michael Ventris. It so happened that as a schoolboy of thirteen, Ventris heard a lecture by Sir Arthur Evans, has been fascinated by the Minoan mystery ever since. If his present solution is correct, scholars will not only have to rewrite the history of Crete, they will also have to change their ideas about the civilization of the pre-Homeric Greeks...
...hard to believe that this was the patient of whom Dr. Schutte had just showed clinical pictures. Thirteen months ago, Senora R., wife of a Havana street-cleaner, was near death from a recurrence of cancer (an operation for breast removal four years earlier had failed to eliminate all the disease sites). Hormone and X-ray treatments were of no further avail...
...long helpings of Thurber. The Robert Montgomery Presents adaptation of The Greatest Man in the World was almost a complete failure, but on the Motorola TV Hour (alt. Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC), Director Donald Richardson struck pure gold in his version of Thurber's fairy story, The Thirteen Clocks, set to music by Mark Bucci...
...steady. The air of intelligent good humor that pervaded the piece most likely resulted from Richardson's long association with Paul Tripp in the production of Mr. I. Magination, the entertaining children's show that ran for a too short three years on CBS-TV. The Thirteen Clocks is al most certain to be repeated in years to come and should take its place with Amahl and the Night Visitors as a perennial holiday TV favorite. This week Thurber fans may get another treat on Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS-TV), which is presenting Elliott Nugent...
Motorola TV Hour (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). James Thurber's The Thirteen Clocks, with Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Rathbone, Roberta Peters...