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...tranquillity of middle-class life by marrying (1911) a rich Basque count much older than herself. Patient Pierre d'Andurain paced her docilely as she darted through Spain, Morocco, Algeria and South America. In 1923, the pair settled in Palmyra, Syria, where Queen Zenobia once ruled the desert caravan routes. There the count owned the Hotel Queen Zenobia, a mud-walled but lavishly furnished caravansary, catering to visiting oilmen, desert chieftains and casual Syrian commercial travelers. Within a few years Marga had turned this oasis into a haven of intrigue and flirtation. Emir Fawaz...
...Ventures. Planemaking will be a new venture for venturesome, 37-year-old Bob Fulton. After he graduated from Harvard in 1931, he studied architecture at the University of Vienna, motorcycled from London to Tokyo in 18 months, wrote a book (One Man Caravan, Harcourt, Brace; $3), made a lecture tour of the U.S., worked for Pan American Airways and formed Continental Inc. This last manufactured $6 million worth of aeronautical equipment. Main item: the "gunairstructor," Navy training device Fulton invented...
...little group of willful men who did not join the Dartmouth caravan, WHCN will broadcast a play by play description of the game this afternoon. At 1 o'clock the Network will go on the air with popular music and 50 minutes later will switch to Hanover where Gerry Weiler '49 and Lou Wainman '46 will handle the reporting...
Coming back in the evening, the Special will leave Dartmouth environs at approximately six o'clock and will be due at North Station three hours later. The caravan will be equipped with diner and club car and will be an all coach train...
That peace had not accompanied coalition soon became evident. In an ill-timed visit to North-West Frontier Province, Nehru was met at Peshawar airdrome by 5,000 Moslem sympathizers, armed with spears and guns. His caravan of armored cars was stoned. Tribesmen insulted him by walking out on his speeches. Enraged, the Pandit called them "pitiful pensioners," an allusion to the fact that Britain pays them annual tribal subsidies to be nice. Gleefully, the League's newspaper Dawn editorialized that the Pandit should be made "honorary propaganda secretary of the Moslem League...