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Fight Camp was obviously inspired by the career of Madame Hranoush Bey, a onetime concert singer of French-Armenian extraction whose late husband was secretary in the Turkish Embassy, before he and Madame went into the fighttraining business at Summit, N.J., some 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fight Camps | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

Wherever three or four women squat beside piles of grain and peppers, there is Harar's market place. Before the town's Law Courts there is a constant babel of dissatisfied litigants. In five minutes on any street one may see an Armenian fighting with a Hindu; an Abyssinian woman with her simian face smeared with rancid butter to keep vermin away; an old bishop who knew the strange, sad, lame poet-adventurer Rimbaud, France's Byron, when he lived in Harar; a beautiful, brown-skinned, high-breasted Harari woman carrying a load of wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATRE: Key Towns | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

Aram (rhymes with a bomb) Garoghlanian (pronounced "Gar, pause, oghlan, slight pause, ian") is the narrator, for William Saroyan, of 14 semi-autobiographical semi-stories of an Armenian childhood in Fresno, Calif. They are, in their modest way, the best writing William Saroyan has done. But like all Saroyan's work, they are likable or loathsome, depending on the reader's taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slack-Wire Miracles | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

When he had precariously made his way back to his native town, Harpoot, Haratune found that his mother and sister had been slaughted and his home blown up when the Armenian church to which it was attached was dynamited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Armenian Escaped Massacre by Hiding Among 10,000 Corpses and Playing Dead for Four Days | 10/16/1940 | See Source »

...alone Witnesses claim 1,000,000 followers, are prepared to proselyte in Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Bohemian, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek. Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lettish, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian and Yiddish, as well as English. All told they seek souls in 36 nations, in 88 languages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Witnesses Examined | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

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