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...personal fortune was estimated at $300 million. Much of it was in precious stones, golden cannons, leopard-skin-lined Rolls-Royces, sacred elephants and palaces with alabaster corridors. In 1942 he approved legislation outlawing polygamy. Soon afterwards, at the race track in Madras, he met beautiful Princess Sita Devi of Pithapuram. He promptly broke his new law by taking her for his wife although both she and he were already married. (Under Hindu law, the Princess could not divorce her husband; so she simply announced that she had abandoned her faith and become a Moslem, which automatically dissolved her Hindu...
First Call. In May, 1909, in fashionable Darjeeling, death called for Roy. His shy, modest wife, Bibhabati Devi, 19, wasted few tears, gave no thought to immolating herself in suttee. She had his body laid on a funeral pyre. Then she invited her brother to manage the Kumar's 100-square-mile Bengal estate and enjoy its $400,000-a-year income. The brother-in-law was too Westernized to spend much time with stable boys, but otherwise Roy's old tenants found him no better than Roy. In fact, they forgot about the stable boys...
...Harvard Mountaineering Club is the only active college organization of its kind, with 19 years of existence to its credit. It has lately been testing climbing equipment for the U. S. Quartermaster Corps in Tuckerman's Ravine. To its credit is the ascent of Nanda Devi in the Himalayas, the highest summit yet reached...
Many graduates are returning for the meeting, among them Henry Hall '19, treasurer of the American Alpine Club, and H. Adams Carter '36, a member of the party which climbed Nanda Devi in India in 1936, the highest ascent yet made...
Their first performance in the Guild Theatre was a sellout, for few Manhattanites had ever seen a temple dance outside of tantalizing glimpses in the movies. For them Devi Dja and her accordion-bellied maidens imitated ancient frescoes, did solemn ritualistic wriggles, proved with deft, complicated gestures that Bali's classic dance is not as simple as a sarong. Between these pantomimes and rituals, the wiry, Balinese youths ritualistically jabbed at each other with crooked knives...