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...Biblical lore which in the past 150 years has been assailed by "Higher Criticism"-comparison of ancient texts and detective work on internal evidence. Last month Sir Charles published an account of his work: New Bible Evidence.* The potsherds, cuneiform tablets, scarabs, bricks, cartouches, scraps of foodstuffs and cloth brought to light by his diggers convinced him that...
...Blue Men of the Rio de Oro" and their 'Blue Sultan" are a leaden blue from head to toe. When they buy the indigo cottonades for their robes, they wet their thumbs and rub them over the cloth to make sure the dye is not fast. In the wet coastal heat they sweat the dye from the cloth to their skins. No true Blue Woman would look at a man who was not also a good deep blue. The Blue Men's rebellion flickers 200 mi. south of the main Berber rebellion around Marrakesh. Their chief capitals, fortified...
...young daredevil risk his life for Science by get ting into that icebox and staying there for half an hour. Daredevil Mark Edward Ridge wanted to test a "stratosphere suit" which he claimed he had invented with the help of someone named Ring. The suit was composed of cotton cloth and thin laminated aluminum in twelve alternating layers. To protect himself from deadly fumes emanating from the ice he also put on a mask connected to a small oxygen tank carried in his hand. He clumped up a stepladder, lifted the box's lid. climbed down inside...
What, if anything, happens after that the audience was hard put to understand. In Act I, labeled "Avila: Saint Therese half indoors and half out of doors," Saint Therese holds the stage, permits herself to be photographed with an old-fashioned camera covered with black cloth. Other saints bombard her with questions. Finally when the chorus solemnly asks her: "If it were possible to kill 5,000 Chinamen by pressing a button would it be done?" an end man replies for her: "Saint Therese not interested...
...Capitol Hill last week marched a cohort of Birth Controllers for their annual harangue before unheeding Congressmen. At the head of the column strode Mrs. Margaret Sanger in green cloth, and Mrs. Thomas Norval Hepburn in black...