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...site of ancient Lachish, southwest of Jerusalem. Last month Expedition Leader J. L. Starkey & staff turned up twelve fragments of pottery bearing the name, written in ink, of many a notable figure of the decadent period from Solomon's first temple in 970 B. C. to the Babylonian conquest in 606 B. C. (TIME, March 25). Last week Sir Charles, just turning 68, was in Manhattan for his third marriage (see p. 70). He told reporters he was a little irked by news of the Wellcome expedition which he had not authorized and which did not mention his name...
Questioned as to the truth of the affair, the Yard warriors vaingloriously admitted complete responsibility for the conquest, but Mr. Hoeing, gallant as always, declined to contradict their statements. "I understand it was a stirring struggle" was all this unsung hero could be persuaded...
...immortalize one of the Soviet heroes of the military conquest just after the World War, Amkino has turned out a thoroughly competent piece entitled "Chapayev, the Red Commander." It is a workmanlike and worthy memorial, yet it falls short of the brilliance intended by its makers. The reason for this lapse is rather difficult to find, for the picture suffers from no definitely low spots. Perhaps it can best be laid at the door of its more than average length, which results in occasional drag...
...Conquest of the Maya is written by an archeologist who is also a novelist, hence an enemy of dry-as-dust procedure. Mr. Mitchell insists, too categorically for such cautious Americanists as Philip Means (Ancient Civilization of the Andes'), that wandering Polynesians or Chinese, in search of "life-givers" such as gold, landed somewhere along the coasts of South or Central America to bring culture to the Aztec, Inca and Maya Indians of the New World. He seeks to clinch his point by comparing Mayan architecture and sculpture with the buildings and statues of Egypt, Babylonia, India and Angkor...
...Author is a Jack of all professions -aviator, novelist, archeologist, biographer. His novels, written under the pseudonym of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, are in Scots dialect. His Earth Conquerors, a series of short biographies of famed explorers, was published by Simon & Schuster last autumn. The Conquest of the Maya has the official praise of Fellow of the Royal Society G. Elliot Smith, champion of the theory that all human culture was diffused from a common point in the Nile Valley...