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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Archeologist Gordon Loud, a veteran digger of 37 who now commands the Oriental Institute's Megiddo Expedition, was back in Chicago with news that he had penetrated the site down to bedrock, through 20 culture levels dating back to 3,500 B. C. Beneath the oldest level was a stone age cave containing flint instruments and bones. At the 19th level the excavators found a flagged paving in which drawings of horned animals and men had been cut. At the 18th level was a stone fortification wall 15 feet high and 24 feet wide, which indicated that...
...Paris today is giving Their Britannic Majesties the greatest reception ever tendered a living person anywhere!" cabled last week Chicago Daily News Veteran Edgar Ansel Mowrer. The democracies, following the lead of Hitler's visit to Rome, were themselves putting on a whopping big show of friendship. At the last minute the $1,000,000 official decoration of Paris for the State visit was multiplied by householders, shopkeepers who hung out flags, bunting, streamers and pictures of Their Majesties. Good-natured French throngs surged on the sidewalks, twisting their tongues in preparation for singing God Save The King. They...
Founder of the 150-bed Halstead, Kans. (pop. 1,367) hospital which he gave away in 1933 to the Sisters of St. Joseph, "Pop" Hertzler, now 68, is a lanky, Ichabod Cranelike surgeon whom a Civil War veteran described as "the homeliest man I seen since I saw Old Abe." During his farm boyhood his favorite reading was Dr. Foote's Family Physician, and Hertzler recalls with satisfaction the time when he walloped a mean teacher with a slate-it pointed to "the ability to act quickly, accurately and energetically...
...small bronzes to a huge plaster Rock Group turned out to be more popular than a show by 20 contemporary painters which opened at the same time. Aside from a group of abstract studies that local critics defended somewhat uneasily, paintings at the Newport Art Association exhibit included the veteran Edward Hopper's oil Sun on Prospect Street, Charles Burchfield's water color Black Iron, the work of John Marin, Thomas Benton, Reginald Marsh, Henry Yarnum Poor, others as eminent...
...tail for luck, a silver Lockheed monoplane roared up off Floyd Bennett Field, Long Island, one hot evening this week. The New York World's Fair 1939 was bound for Paris with a crew of four-Navigator Harry P. M. Connor, veteran of Captain Erroll Boyd's Montreal-London hop in 1930; Navigator Lieut...