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...look at the bulging buttocks of the squat female figurine and British Archaeologist James Mellaart recognized a Stone Age fertility symbol; the dig he was starting on a plain in southern Turkey promised to open a door onto the most ancient reaches of human civilization. Mellaart treated every crum bling bit of dirt as a hard-to-read book, and after three years of diligent scratching through the 32-acre mound called Qatal Hiiyiik, he is now piecing together the story of a city that flourished at least 3,000 years before the first Pharaoh ruled in Egypt...
...produced the first truly American dictionary, which in its 70,000 listings stressed the New World's lusty new words, from applesauce to skunk. The descendants have never matched Noah's style, clarity and wit. He was a practical man given to phonetic spelling (ake, crum, skreen). He was a feeling man given to personalizing his definitions: "All sin is hateful in the sight of God and of good men." Or: "In short, we love whatever gives us pleasure and delight, whether animal or intellectual; and if our hearts are right, we love God above all things...
Some people studied; some didn't. Some played tennis; some didn't. Bartley J. Crum '64 slept...
Died. Bartley Cavanaugh Crum, 59, able lawyer and political dilettante who spent a lifetime in and out of left-wing groups, as a member of the Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry on Palestine (1946) clamored vociferously for the creation of Israel, blasted the Truman State Department in a book (Behind the Silken Curtain) for what he considered its vacillation over Palestine; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Fleet-footed Bart Crum grabbed headlines in 1953 by chasing Aly Khan around the world to win a $1,000,000 divorce settlement for his client Rita Hayworth. But his real forte...
...There is nothing in the Middle Eastern picture which necessitates the present state of permanent war," Crum said. In fact, he noted, the Arab people themselves almost never sympathize with the "tirades of hatred" which various Arab leaders disseminate through their state-controlled press and radio...