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...night we were in Paris, at the Cafe Marguery. We chanced to sit near two American girls with Armenian escorts. 'Perhaps we'll find their bodies tonight in the Seine,' I said to my wife...
...remote parts of the Soviet Union local peoples and tribes are not greatly molested by the Union of the Militant Godless, lest they rebel. Thus letters reaching Moscow last week from Erivan, capital of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia, announced that on Nov. 13 the Congress of the Armenian Gregorian Church met at Echmiadzin, with British, French and U. S. delegates present and elected a new Gregorian supreme head, the former Archbishop Horan Murad-pekian of Erivan who at once assumed the title of His Holiness the Catholicos...
...Europe's rare internationalists, helped refugees and starving populations wherever he could, regardless of political boundaries. The League credited him with repatriating nearly half a million prisoners belonging to more than 30 different nations, of relieving "1,250,000 Greek, 1,000,000 Russian, 300,000 Armenian and some tens of thousands of Assyrian, Assyro-Chaldean, Bulgarian and Turkish refugees." When Death came for him suddenly in 1930 at 69, Fridtjof Nansen, tall and spare as ever but his hair snow white, was sitting in his garden, thinking thoughts that no biographer can ever tell...
Fearful that Death might snatch him away from his large fortune before he could make it colossal, shrewd Armenian Merchant Eli Amirhanian drafted a strange will, died peacefully...
...Jean Toomer's grandfathers was Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, a mulatto carpet-bagger who became Acting Governor of Louisiana but was refused a U. S. Senate seat in 1876. After attending the University of Wisconsin. Jean Toomer became an exponent of Georges Gurdjieff, the Armenian-Greek cultist who founded the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau, France, and whose most famed disciple was the late Katherine Mansfield (TIME, March 24, 1930). Last autumn Disciple Toomer took a mixed party of eight, all white except himself, to a farmhouse outside Portage, birthplace of Novelist Latimer...