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Died. George T. Bye, 70, topflight literary agent who pushed the writing careers of such notables as Rebecca West, Deems Taylor, Alexander Woollcott and Charles A. Lindbergh, encouraged his close friend Eleanor Roosevelt to start her syndicated column "My Day"; after long illness; in New Canaan, Conn...
Local Harvard clubs will sponsor concerts by the Band in Chicago, Detroit, Rochester, Syracuse, and New Canaan, Conn. Profits from ticket sales will go in to the Band's general fund. Local club members will provide publicity for the concerts and lodgings for players...
...Israel, dangled from a scaffold in front of Amman's old Roman amphitheater (which survives from the days when Amman's name was Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly Love). In the public squares of Nablus, Tulkarm and Hebron-cities of that ancient land of Canaan whose milk and honey Moses' twelve spies once surveyed for the children of Israel-three other Guardsmen were hanged at the same hour. All had been convicted as spies last December, accused of having been caught crossing the border with maps and reports of Jordan troop dispositions. Their public execution last week...
...Rice's interest goes back to 2000 B.C., when Harran was a famous center of worship of the long-bearded moon-god, Sin, giver of light and wisdom. Harran was also visited by Abraham on his way from Ur of the Chaldees to the land of Canaan...
Died. Charles Elmer (Charley) Rochester, 63, Manhattan hotelman, longtime (1932-55) manager of the Lexington, where he established (1937) the famed Hawaiian Room, where tourists festooned with orchid leis ogle Polynesian cuties; of a heart attack; in New Canaan, Conn...