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...Archeologist Benjamin Dean Meritt is deciphering 6,000 pre-Christian Greek inscriptions. Said suave, barrel-chested North Carolinian Meritt: "Some are right interesting." For 1945 publication, he and Assistant, W. Kendrick Pritchett (now in the Army) have planned a who's who of some 30,000 Athenians mentioned in Meritt's collected inscriptions. Meritt is proud of U.S. archeology, says the long-dominant German variety has declined...
Thirty-five years ago a sarcophagus weighing 3½ tons was found buried in the old chapel of St. Edmund at Thetford. The sarcophagus lay around until two weeks ago when a Mrs. Jameson, archeologist wife of a local doctor, convinced that it contained Sweyn's bones, agitated for recommitment. Rev. Ronald Cooling, Vicar of St. Mary's, Thetford was about to conduct the ceremony last week when Bishop Herbert of Norwich intervened. Experts, he decreed, must first study the bones...
Some of the refuse of victory will lie where it fell, awaiting discovery by some archeologist of the future searching the course of old battles...
...archeologist of distinction, a quiet, intelligent man who gives the impression of having closely scrutinized the world and found that it has to be accepted, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf represents the stolid virtues of his people. At 60 he plays tennis, as does his father, King Gustaf V, who is nearly 85 years old. He is better at golf, which his father disdains as an old man's game. Last week, speaking English with an Oxford accent, he oozed charm and cordiality to the visiting American journalists. His people like him personally better than they like the King...
...Wissler's central point seemed clear throughout-in case of likely findings, call a real archeologist...