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...both were Buddhas incarnate. One was the mighty Dalai Lama, temporal ruler of Tibet, master of the Potala fortress, incarnation of the ancestor of all Tibetans, the "Buddha of Mercy." The other was the spiritual ruler, the Panchen Lama, resident at Tashilunpo Monastery eight days distant by caravan, the 'Buddha of Boundless Light." The succession of the Panchen and Dalai Lamas was determined by the Tibetan hierarchy. Upon the death of either Lama his spirit immediately found residence in the body of some small Tibetan moppet, of high family or low. Omens and portents would indicate to priests...
...Omar Khyyam and choice Chinese and Indian poems we cannot recommend too highly. The Oriential Caravan by Sinder Ikbal Ali Shah (Claude Kendall, $2.75). A distinct treasure house of fine litetature, this is a highly appropriate gift selection. If you wish to continue your line of reading straight down to the turbulence of man and sea, we suggest Mother Sea, beautifully written by Felix Riensenberg (Claude Kendall,$2.50), whose characters move with the restlessness of the waters...
...London and Glasgow, astute liquor brokers were selling "brands ' on which the printer's ink was still wet. All was hurly-burly in the rush for retail, wholesale and importing licenses and quotas. Broken Axles. Under the eyes of a platoon of U. S. revenue agents, a caravan of 100 trucks clattered through the still streets of Philadelphia one night last week, shuttling 50,000 cases of gin across the river to Camden, N. J. Pennsylvania's Governor Pinchot was jamming through his Legislature a $2-a-gallon floor tax on every drop of liquor...
...inheritance from his Irish father), was 104 years old, he was finally prevailed upon to recite the story of his life-or rather, one stormy year of it, when as a boy of 12 he journeyed from the tip of Lower California up to San Francisco in the caravan of the Spanish Inspector-General. That was in 1810. He took the journey for his health, having just knifed a local scoundrel with an uncomfortably large number of brothers. It was a long, arduous, dangerous trip, but young Juan had the time of his life. He became immediately devoted...
Almost Kiplingesque was Governor Norman's speech. Britain had grown great by evolution, he declared, while other nations tried revolutionary panaceas essentially un-British. "We shall have many difficulties and much criticism," cried Governor Norman, "but I console myself with this thought: 'The dogs bark but the caravan passes...