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...theorize at length on their Eastern origin. Their English name is derived from the word "Egyptians" and some gypsies speak of themselves as "Pharaoh's People," claim to have originated in a non-existent "Little Egypt." Their language resembles a Hindu dialect with liberal borrowing from Greek, Persian, Armenian, Rumanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Czech, German, French, English, et al. Gypsies have a great many kings and queens. In 1930 in Madison. N. J., Queen Louisa Harrison, recognized by one of the many U. S. factions, died. She was English-born, a devout Presbyterian and worth $1,000,000 which...
...Colporteur Szoke spends most of his time in the restaurants and cafes of Budapest. Let us hasten to add that he does not go there to be fed, but to feed others with the Word of God." In Turkey, Armenian Colporteur Mihran Balian "tells of a Turk who was heard crying out with a loud voice in the midst of a large crowd: 'May this Society live long! What a philanthropic Society! It is not concerned at all with politics and supplies the people with books at cheap rates...
...PhotoReflex films go to New Haven because there is where the inventor works, amiable young Luther George Simjian, Armenian-born director of Yale Medical School's photographic laboratories. An other of his devices is a fogged silver screen for the perfect projection of microscopic slides. Newly formed to exploit his latest invention is PhotoRerlex Co. of America, affiliated with Sperry Gyroscope Co. and North American Aviation Corp. Soon he hopes to enjoy royalties from a national chain of PhotoReflex booths...
...Author, Michael Arlen (Dikran Kouyoumdjian), an Armenian born in a Bulgarian village, lives in London and on the Riviera. He is married (since 1928) to the beautiful Italo-U. S.-Grecian Countess Atalanta Mercati. Once a struggling writer in London, at 35 Michael Arlen's struggles are over. Smooth, cosmopolitan, he is thus described by a warm friend: "His ties and socks are a gracefully subdued symphony. His barber is the best in town. . . . His Rolls-Royce is at least six inches longer than any other Rolls-Royce. With evening dress he wears a gardenia, one white pearl...
...Universalist, 27: Quaker, 27: Latter Day Saints, 22: Greek Orthodox, 20, Union Church, 10: Evangelical Church, eight, United Church of Canada, six, Swedenborgian, five: Buddhist, four: Church of New Jerusalem, three: Ethical Culture, three: United Brethren, Mohammedan, and Hindu, two each: Russian Orthodox, Humanism, New Church, Plymouth Brethren Bahai. Armenian Church, Church of God, Laurentian, Seventh Day Adventist, and Church of Christ, one each...