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...glad to see you this morning and so many of you. ... I shall be glad to answer any questions"?he qualified this by excepting questions on politics. Then for the first time in history the Crown Prince of Sweden was interviewed. Yes, he had been called an archeologist. No, he was not a criminologist. He had done some carpentry as a boy, but was not worth 25¢ a day as a carpenter. No, he had never played poker.' He had not taken a drink in 15 years. He danced, but did not enjoy it much. He did not play...
Sightseeing. After a visit to the National Museum, where the archeologist forgot the Prince and stayed an hour and a half, the Prince and Princess saw Vice President Dawes and Senator Borah at the Capitol, sat unnoticed in the Senate gallery for five minutes, were escorted to the House gallery by Speaker Longworth. The Representatives rose and cheered. Two speeches were made for the Prince. In the hall Congressman Upshaw slapped his fellow Dry on the back, exclaiming: "Hurrah for Sverege!" The Prince smiled sweetly. Speaker Longworth and the Foreign Affairs Committee had their pictures taken with the Prince...
...Peabody Museum and the American Antiquarian Society, which obtained him the first U. S. consulship in Yucatan and opportunity to devote most of his life to baring the secrets of Chichen Itza, the Mayan capital. Besides constituting a reliable compendium of Mayan culture-Author Willard is himself an accomplished archeologist-the book recites in Thompson's own words the feats of dredging, and then diving, to the bottom of the home of Yum Chac, the Rain God-a limestone sinkhole 160 feet across and 150 feet deep-where virgins and warriors, decked with jade and golden bells, accompanied...
...coming to the U. S. to attend the unveiling of a monument to Viking Leif Ericsson* at the Capital. Minister Bliss must help President Coolidge entertain. Yale, which has not had a special convocation since Marshal Foch visited it in 1921, † is going to confer upon the Prince, "archeologist, musician, athlete and religious leader," an honorary LL.D...
...Peru, on the windswept Paracas peninsula, Dr. William M. McGovern, of London University, and Dr. Julio Tello, Harvard-educated Peruvian archeologist, gathered scattered bones, bits of pottery and building stone; dug six yards down and found the red porphyry walls and courtyards of a city of unknown extent dating to 1000 B. C. Burial caverns, scooped into solid rock like the interior of flat-bottomed water-bottles with yard wide necks, contained groups of mummies sitting in circles, the chiefs holding carved wooden staffs. Headbands and other trinkets of gold; primitive pottery and "magnificent" textile remains, approximated the lost Tiahuanaco...