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...Omaha mortician who put away the remains of Franklyn R. Rees after dark had excellent authority for his ceremony (TIME, April 27). Matthew records (XXVIII-57) that the "even was come" when Joseph of Arimathaea begged the body of Jesus from Pilate, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and laid it in his own new tomb. John records (XIX-39) that Nicodemus came to the body of Jesus ''by night" with myrrh and aloes and only thereafter was it buried in the sepulchre...
British goods are still boycotted widely in India despite the Gandhi-Irwin truce. Last week Bombay despatches reported that Indian merchants are now clearing their shelves of British cloth by "selling it in Persia, Irak and East Africa at less than production costs." Indian cloth mills at Bombay are enjoying boom prosperity, running 24 hours a day to keep pace with the demand, while more and more British mills close down in depressed, despairing Lancashire...
Plainly the Superintendent's cautious utterance was inspired by Mr. Gandhi's statement that he would not wear trousers while calling on King George and Queen Mary (TIME, April 13). But the scandal of what correspondents called "Gandhi's gossamer loin cloth" had assumed such world proportions last week that sensible St. Gandhi made an amplifying statement on the matter...
Anxiety continued last week lest St. Gandhi, when he calls upon King George and Queen Mary in London next summer, should appear, as one tactful correspondent put the matter last week, in his ''gossamer loin cloth...
...William Rothenstein (knighted last year) was born in Yorkshire in 1872, the son of a prosperous cloth merchant. At the age of 16 he left grammar school to be an artist, studied at the Slade School in London under Alphonse Legros, a meticulous draughtsman and a pupil of Ingres. The Ingres-Legros influence is still obvious in Rothenstein's drawing. A preternaturally solemn youth of 17 in a long black frock coat, he went to Paris to enter the Academic Julian...