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...left them glowing balefully red. To some yellow-robed Buddhist monks conducting sombre ritual in Peiping's ancient, dilapidated Lama Temple, the eclipse was an ominous portent. They twirled their prayer-wheels uneasily, muttering the potent Buddhist charm: Om mani padme hum ("Hail to the jewel in the lotus flower"). Three nights before, some 1,000 miles to the southwest of Peiping, the great Dalai Lama, Venerable Ocean Treasure and Jewel of Majesty, had gone to his Nirvana, aged 60, in the Potala, his massive fortress-palace in Lhasa high on the bleak plateau of Tibet. Dead, some said...
...Evarist Andrea Mader, director of the German Oriental Institute (Roman Catholic) of Jerusalem. The ruin is 170 ft. long, with a 66-ft. transept. Under the altar is a stone which apparently marks the spot of the miracle. In front are mosaics of serpents, sea birds, plants and lotus flowers. Behind are shown the loaves & fishes, with a sort of basket which is presumably one of the twelve in which the leftovers were gathered...
...Carl Lotus Becker, history professor at Cornell, president of American Historical Association Litt.D...
...their best shots, newsreels are dependent upon accidentally suitable events, like the Lindbergh kidnapping. Otherwise they are too often forced to use cliches like battleship launchings, cherry-blossom time in Japan, baby parades, Mussolini, sporting events and animals that can dance or count. A new type of newsreel called Lotus Sobol's Newsreel Scoops made its appearance last week. It showed what in newssheets would be feature stories- shots of Harry K. Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit as they looked when Harry K. Thaw shot Stanford White and as they look at present; various ladies who have been friends with...
...Spying out good night life for his majestic son-in-law, gay old Prince Svasti last week bewitched the manager and bartender of Manhattan's new, swank Terrace Club by letting them smoke one of his fat, perfumed special cigarets whose wrappings are lotus leaves...