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...leading Yellow Hat monk and named him Dalai (Ocean of Wisdom) Lama. The fifth Dalai Lama is famous for building the vast Potala. He also felt the need to honor his favorite teacher by naming him the Panchen (Teacher) Lama, and put in his keeping Tibet's second largest city, Shigatse. He thus created a rivalry that has plagued Tibet ever since. Generally, the Dalai Lama has had the support of whatever power is ruling in India, and the Panchen Lama of the ruling power in China...
...beauty and food industries, the U.S. housewife continued to take good care of herself-and of the companies that serve her. Revlon, Inc.'s first-quarter earnings jumped from last year's 84?a share to 91?. Said Revlon President Charles Revson: "1959 should be the largest year we ever had." National Biscuit Co. expects first-quarter earnings to be about the same as last year, but looks for "continued improvement" in sales and earnings for the rest of 1959; General Baking Co. and Hiram Walker distillers both reported increased quarterly profits...
Despite an unusually cold day, the largest crowd of the season watched the New York Rugby Club hand the Crimson its first loss, 9 to 8, here Saturday. The game was nevertheless very encouraging for the hosts...
...crowd--among the largest to witness a varsity lacrosse game in several years--livened the contest with cries of "Fight fiercely, Harvard," and with shouts whenever it looked as if a fight might break out, or a Crimson player might be injured. In the fourth period, attackman Dave Bohn nearly came to blows with a Holy Cross defenseman...
Died. Hiram Haney Parke, 85, art appraiser and auctioneer who in 1937 co-founded Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, which became the U.S.'s largest auction house, handling paintings, books, furniture, tapestries, stamps, etc.; in Mt. Airy, Pa. Parke brought down his hammer on some of the most grandiose sales in art history. Maintaining an air of disinterested opulence, he could up bids hundreds of dollars with a shrewdly timed word, thousands with a sentence. In 1928 he sold Gainsborough's The Harvest Wagon to Lord Duveen for $360,000, also peddled such miscellaneous treasures...