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...first flecks of dawn came up over the low hills around Beirut one morning last week, a swarthy, bullet-headed Armenian trudged with leaden steps over the rough courtyard in front of the High Commissariat Building. Softly he crooned a Turkish song: "I have waited for thee, but thou hast not come." Before a crude, hastily constructed wooden structure, he halted. Above the planking, blackly outlined against the grey dawn, dangled a loose rope. Around the platform stood silent native policemen, Syrian officials. They had gathered to witness the hanging of Mejardich Karayan, the 29-year-old Armenian assassin...
...second year Yale beat Harvard 19-6 in another sea battle. Harvard through the agency of Erwin Gehrke kicked two field goals in the first half with a leaden ball, but that ended their surge for the day. Yale came into its own and rolled up three touchdowns before the game had ended...
Among the students enrollest are Robert S. Colquhon of London, England, who is Assistant Engineer for the Grester London Highway Development Survey, now engaged in preparing a highway development plan for the Leaden region. During his career he has held a number of important positions as assistant to engineers and town planning officers in England...
Every so often mercurial Edward of Wales gives wealthy British Islanders an after-dinner rebuke for their leaden business methods, their notorious failure in this Modern World to pioneer (TIME, June 1, 1931). The stuffy sort of tycoon to whom H. R. H. seems fated to talk simply cannot do as the high-spirited Empire Salesman advises. Last week, however, observers noted three 1935 British Pioneers going great guns...
...Blue Men of the Rio de Oro" and their 'Blue Sultan" are a leaden blue from head to toe. When they buy the indigo cottonades for their robes, they wet their thumbs and rub them over the cloth to make sure the dye is not fast. In the wet coastal heat they sweat the dye from the cloth to their skins. No true Blue Woman would look at a man who was not also a good deep blue. The Blue Men's rebellion flickers 200 mi. south of the main Berber rebellion around Marrakesh. Their chief capitals, fortified...