Word: weitzmann
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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...KURT WEITZMANN...
Vicarious congratulations are equally in order for persevering Princetonian Professor Kurt Weitzmann, for bringing into focus this lost horizon of Byzantine...
...Window. For Princeton Professor Kurt Weitzmann, 55, the expedition fulfilled a long-frustrated dream. He first tried to get to the monastery in 1932, but was turned back by an attack of typhus. A second try was stymied by the start of World War II, and a third by the Suez crisis. In 1956 Weitzmann got to the monastery at last, but all his color film was spoiled by the heat. This time everything worked. Aluminum scaffolding and an electric generator were sent from the U.S., and enough material was gleaned to fill a projected ten-volume treatise on Saint...
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