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Iraq- "Squat and thickset, with head disproportionately large, the woman stands holding her hands before her breast. She wears the traditional garment of sheepskin and her hair, gathered in a heavy roll, is confined by a fillet of lapis lazuli inlay. The eyes are of shell and lapis lazuli and the eyebrows are inlaid with bituminous paste." Thus did Dr. Charles Leonard Woolley report one of his latest finds. A popeyed, club-footed little figure of alabaster, 10 in. high, found in a soldier's grave with its head touching the blade of the warrior's bronze...
...Parish church of Argenteuil some ten miles out from Paris, where Héloise was once Abbess, went devout Roman Catholics by the thousands last week to gaze with pious awe upon a purple woolen garment. To them it was the tunic which Christ wore on His way to Calvary and His Crucifixion; sweat had stained the fabric and on one shoulder were blood spots where the cross had rested. Now as the Holy Tunic, woven and dyed by the Virgin Mary, it was being given solemn ostension for the first time since 1900 because Good Friday commemorated the 19th...
...miraculous cures, its therapeutic powers were last said to be demonstrated in 1843 when a portion of it sent to the University of Fribourg healed a youth injured in a football game. When its golden reliquary was opened few years later, moths flew out after eating holes in the garment...
...named Judas (later St. Cyriacus) who showed her a ditch containing three crosses. When one of the crosses cured a sick woman, pious Helena sought no further. To Constantinople she sent the cross, three nails and the Holy Tunic now at Argenteuil. To Trier she sent the garment called the Holy Coat...
Married. James Alexander ("Jim") Reed, 72, longtime (1911-29) U. S. Senator from Missouri; and Mrs. Nell Quinlan Donnelly, 43, wealthy garment manufacturer. Two years ago Senator Reed helped rescue his bride from kidnappers. Cried he then: "If a single hair of Mrs. Donnelly's head is harmed, I'll devote the rest of my life to catching the kidnappers." Her rise to fame began 26 years ago with experiments in selling a type of housedress ("Nelly Don") of her own design. Ever since Mrs. Reed died last year and Mrs. Donnelly divorced her husband a month later...