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Last week as the Shriners began to assemble once again in Washington matters were different. Secretary Early turned down a request to have Imperial Potentate Dana S. Williams, of Lewiston, Me., ride up to the White House on a camel to be received by the President. Only the vanguard of potentates caught Shriner Franklin D. Roosevelt (Cypress Temple, Albany, N. Y.) at his desk, induced him to put on an honorary fez of Washington's Almas Temple. That night in a darkened limousine the President sped past the Pavilion of Omar erected on the sidewalk in front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Escape from Arabs | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

Professor Kirsopp Lake, who is leading an expedition excavating the ancient Egyptian temple Hathor, was seriously injured when he was bumped by a camel during a caravan journey to Serabit it was learned at Harvard yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR LAKE SERIOUSLY INJURED AT HATHOR TOMB | 5/15/1935 | See Source »

...steward to William the Conqueror, with ancestral estates in Leicestershire, Lord Hastings finds Britain too expensive, makes his permanent home in the South Seas, at Faretaotootoa, Moorea Island. His family shield is an empty sleeve supported by two man-faced lions. Unlike Diego Rivera who paints meticulously with a camel's hair brush on wet plaster, Hastings uses a spray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lord & Leggers | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

Five out of ten U. S. citizens probably associate the name Reynolds with Camel cigarets, Prince Albert tobacco or Torch-singer Libby Holman. Nevertheless, in the land where containers are often more important than their contents, Reynolds Metals Co. is a major industrial name. World's largest maker of tin and other metal foils, the company was founded by Richard Samuel Reynolds, nephew of Winston-Salem's late Tobaccoman Richard Joshua Reynolds. Indeed, Nephew Richard is supposed to have persuaded R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. to concentrate on Camels before he struck out for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Reynolds Foil | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

...that no game will be arranged to take its place so there will be no more trials of strength for the Crimson nine until Friday, April 19. One case of measles appeared on the B.U. squad yesterday and this, on top of the two days of rain, broke the camel's back and the game was given up. There is to be another match played however, at the Terrier ball park on May 24 since the original agreement was for a home and home series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.U. Ball Game Dropped Due To Rain and Measles in Squad | 4/11/1935 | See Source »

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