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...absinthe in TIME, Sept. 3, was made even better by the reproduction of Rops' Absinthe Drinker. May I have some information about that picture? Was your cut made from the painting or the etching? In how many forms did Rops himself execute the picture? How many copies are extant? Is it purchasable from dealers' stocks? What was last quoted price...
...Dollfuss was not only Chancellor but also Leader of the only party officially extant under his Dictatorship, the Fatherland Front. Last week Dr. Schuschnigg decided that the Chancellorship was enough for him and with alacrity permitted Vice Chancellor Prince von Starhemberg to assume the title of Leader. Together they announced that as soon as possible they will visit Benito Mussolini, longtime patron of the Austrian Dictatorship. Meanwhile last week Chancellor Schuschnigg received correspondents for the first time and wobbled in his state ments toward something which looked like an effort to replace Dictatorship by Coalition...
Bald Barnum Brown was born in Carbondale, Kans. 61 years ago. He has hunted bones off & on for 30 years, gave up a lucrative job as an oil geologist to devote all his time to paleontology. He has dug up hundreds of fossils on five continents, including the best extant specimens of a nodosaur (or epinodosaur), and a hoplitosaur, two rare species of armored, thick-set dinosaurs. He considers his enthusiasm "a form of dementia...
Though world-travelers are now conducted in droves to many an outlandish spot. Tibet is not one of them. While it houses one of the most ancient of the world's extant civilizations, Tibet is so nearly inaccessible that it remains one of the least-visited places on the globe. A trip to Tibet is more in the nature of a conquest than a journey; Author Hedin well names this record of his perilous peregrinations...
...enthusiasts, but they will want to read it if only for the 14,000 words of quotations from Lawrence's unpublished papers. Liddell Hart, military expert, places Lawrence's Arabian campaign in relation to the rest of the World War and gives the clearest exposition of it extant. He deprecates the view that Lawrence's success as a leader of irregular troops came from innate genius, calls Lawrence a profound student of tactics, a military thinker. Basis of Lawrence's tactical scheme was to avoid battles, destroy Turkish material and morale. Says Lawrence: ". . . Suppose we were...