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...lorry arrived. Out of it got three prisoners : Lieut. Colonel Georgi Koeff, Lawyer Marco Friedmann, Sacristan Zadgorsky (TIME, May 11, 25). Under heavy guard, they were marched to the gibbets, where the acts of accusation were read to them. This took about 40 minutes. It was then the turn of three gypsy executioners...
...Marco Friedmann, lawyer, Communist. He knew of, but said he was not connected with, the persons who hatched the bomb plot. Sentence: Public execution...
...ruined city of Kara Khoto in the Gains desert was one of the expedition's objectives. The city, uninhabited now for some 400 years, is mentioned by Marco Polo as Edzina. The Fogg expedition made a map of the city and succeeded in bringing back from there some small frescos, a fine mirror of the Tang period, and several interesting fragments of broken pottery...
...descriptions brought back by Marco Polo several centuries ago furnished the first account of that strange land. The animals sought are the Ovis Poli, or great sheep described by Polo, the yarklandstag, the ibex of Tian Shan, the goitered gazelle, the long-haired tiger, and the markhor (large goat...
Donn Byrne, author of Messer Marco Polo, Anatole France, Joseph Hergesheimer Mr. Cabell enjoys at least in part because he sees in them "the artist who labors primarily to divert himself." And that, says Mr. Cabell, is why he and all other artists create beautiful things beautifully...