Word: tutankhamen
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...Nahas Pasha. To make up his mind on one point he telephoned from Cairo, Egypt to Vichy, France where an eminent expert on protocol was taking a water cure. The question was whether to crown His Majesty with the golden fillet once worn by Ancient Egypt's King Tutankhamen and only unearthed in recent years. This was a good idea, except that Mohammedan sovereigns are never crowned, and Premier Nahas knew that the Egyptian people grew accustomed, when they were subjects of Turkey, to seeing each new Sultan symbolically invested with the Sword. Fortunately modern Egypt possesses the gorgeously...
...will henceforth decide when and where the Institute's parties shall dig reads hieroglyphics for relaxation, sometimes detective stories. He is married, has three children. Though Director Wilson, like his predecessor, has delved in the tomb of TutankhAmen, he is unimpressed by the tabloid demonology which would put him under a Pharaoh's "curse." In fact, he points out, insurance actuaries marvel at the ripe old age at which most Egyptologists...
Died. Frances Winlock, 21, daughter of Egyptologist Herbert Winlock whom she accompanied into the tomb of TutankhAmen; of tuberculosis, after two years' illness; in Saranac Lake...
...learn Dr. Lythgoe's condition. When he found the hospital telephones so jammed by calls from curse-believers that he could hardly get his own calls through, Mr. Winlock in exasperation summoned newshawks, did his best to put the curse of cold fact on the curse of TutankhAmen. Mr. Winlock's facts...
...possible that some noxious thing in the tomb air or on TutankhAmen's mummy may have infected at least one or two men? No. Samples of the air taken in vacuum containers were found clean and pure. Howard Carter passed a swab over the mummy at the first opportunity, and no germs were detected on the swab. An 1,800-year-old mummy brought to the U. S. and examined for a month by the Rockefeller Institute's famed Alexis Carrel was pronounced absolutely sterile...