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...late Stone Age to 2000 B.C., a non-Semitic people, the Sumerians, dominated the Euphrates Valley, the great "cradle of civilization." Even their name was lost to history until 1869, and not until recently has their literature been discovered and translated. This is the work of Samuel N. Kramer of the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, who spent five years in museums at Istanbul and Philadelphia, copying crumbling clay tablets which had been ignored since their excavation nearly 50 years...
This "oldest written literature of significant quantity ever uncovered" consists of epics, myths, hymns, proverbs. Before the Society, Kramer read a poem, "Inanna's Descent to the Nether World," oldest known version of the universally significant myth of a descent into Hades. This myth, hitherto thought to be Semitic in origin, was taken over by all succeeding civilizations from the Assyrian to the Christian. Still more important, Kramer hopes, will be his translation of Sumerian "forerunners of the ancient myths concerned with the dying god and his resurrection, a group ... of basic significance for a scientific approach...
...within 200 miles of St. Petersburg, West Palm Beach, other headline-hunting resorts that put on winter tennis tournaments. So when little Rollins offered them tennis scholarships last summer, it was hard for Miss Betz and Miss Bundy to refuse. Rollins also scooped up Tennis Aces Jack Kramer (U. S. No. 6) and Eddie Alloo...
Near Ashland, Wis., Evelyn Kramer took a shot at a buck. It didn't move a step. Hastily she rammed in another shell, pulled the trigger, got no report. By the time she had opened the breech and extracted her lipstick case from the shell chamber, the buck had dropped - dead from the first shot...
Sidney Koretsky '43, Chelses, Mass.; Herbert J. Kramer '43, New York N.Y.; William Land '42, Mattapan. Mass.; John E. Leffler '42, Waban, Mass.; Joseph R. Levenson '41, Roxbury, Mass...