May 12, 1961 • Page Image 5
…By CHARLOTTE HYAMS .The newsmaking clashes of the Middle East received a scholarly snub from eight acad- einic VIP's at the Wayne State University Conference on the Literary Heritage of the Near East Sunday through Tuesday. Conference chairman Ephraim A. Speiser, renowned orientalist and chairman of the University of Pennsylvania Department of Semitics, stated at the opening session that the purpose of the conference was'to probe, through lite...…

















































