Résumé :
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Archaeologist. Museum Curator and Professor in New York. He had an early interest in archaeology. In 1937 he ran from the school, got a job on a freighter heading east, jumped ship in Alexandria and landed in Luxor. In poor state he later came to the U.S. embassy and found an elder American, who hired him for the trip to home. For a while he was at University of Chicago on an athletic scholarship (he listened there to Olmstead), but in 1941 returned to New York and “enrolled in the anthropology program at Columbia University, earning a B.A. adding Chinese and Mongolian to his languages.” Soon in army, “he served as lieutenant in Intelligence Branch and was trained in Japanese at universities of Minnesota and Michigan. He served in the Far East and at the end of the war was on General MacArthur’s staff.”
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