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...allowance has been $1,000 a week, said they would live on Ship's insurance commissions, at least until she comes into her $3,500,000 next year. He gave her a diamond-paved cabochon emerald ring. She said they would live obscurely. Dancers Tony and Renee de Marco seemed split for good when Renee left Manhattan last week, bound for "Florida ... or Reno." Maritally separated since 1938, they danced together until a few weeks ago. Now Veteran Tony, 41, has a new dancing partner, Sally Craven, whom he describes as "the kind of girl you want to . . . cuddle...
...roundabout northern way-into Vladivostok, by rail to Chita or Verkhne Udinsk, thence by mechanical and animal caravan down the Mongolian desert to China, 3,700 miles in all from Vladivostok to Chungking. Links in the route were not exactly new; their origins as a pack trail predated Marco Polo, Genghis Khan and the mighty Chin. About three years ago the Chinese began to fix up the road, stringing repair shops, gasoline dumps and food stations across the tundra...
PEAKS AND LAMAS-Marco Pallis-Knopf...
...When Marco Pallis first went to India in 1933 he was mainly interested in climbing mountains. He climbed some. He also debunked the notion that Europeans can scale the great Indian peaks only with the help of platoons of native porters. In his spare time he drank buttered tea and, with a companion, played Bach's Two-part Inventions on viols...
...monastery at Himi was particularly disenchanting: the food and water were noisome, ferocious dogs snarled (chained) in the courtyard, inestimable works of art disintegrated in the corridors, the abbot was a fool for such gadgets as bicycle bells and dry-cell batteries, all of them out of commission. But Marco Pallis did find four good & great men, to whom he dedicates his book. From one he learned the traditions and processes of Tibetan painting. With the others he debated on war, on compassion, on the relative merits of Christianity and Buddhism, on such problems as the possibility of an animal...