Word: malraux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolutionary government of the South ; as a member of the Committee of Twelve he helped direct the Canton insurrection, saw plenty of hand-to-hand fighting. His story of" the Shanghai rising is a compressed and fictionalized account of what actually happened. Last March, with Pilot Molinier. Malraux made international headlines when he flew across the Great Arabian Desert and re ported the discovery of what he thought was the legendary city of Sheba. with 20 towers still standing (TIME. March 19). At present Author Malraux lives in Paris, working for the publishing house of Gallimard. His first book (Limes...
Arabia- "Have discovered legendary city of Sheba. Twenty towers or temples still standing. On north boundary Rouba-el-Khali. Have taken photographs for l'Intransigeant-André Malraux." Those electric words, cabled from Djibouti in far-off French Somaliland, last week jerked the editors of Paris' evening paper l'Intransigeant from their mulling over the Stavisky scandal. Soon across the front pages of the world Press flashed what promised to be either the archeological story-of-the-year or the year's No. 1 archeological hoax. André Malraux is a handsome young writer...
...Sidney Thomas, first white man to cross the great Southern Arabian Desert (1930), and H. St. John Philby, a later traveler, encountered natives who told them of a once magnificent city buried in the sands. Aware of this, some archeologists hesitated to throw too much cold water on the Malraux bulletin, preferred to wait and see the photographs which lucky l'Intransigeant was expecting...