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...first Patriarch in history to visit the U. S. docked in Manhattan last week, settled at the Gramercy Park Hotel. His Beatitude Eshai Mar Shimun, 119th Patriarch of Assyria and head of the Church of the East (which Westerners know as the Nestorian Church), had come to see his 70,000 fellow countrymen in the U. S., do something if possible for his persecuted brethren elsewhere. The Assyrian Christians have had a long record of persecution. They have been a minority in the mountains of Kurdistan and the plains of Syria and Iraq since Mohammedanism's rise...
Cambridge-educated, Mar Shimun also speaks perfect English. Unlike many a Patriarch, he has a short black beard instead of a long white one, is young (33) and good-looking. The Assyrian Patriarchate has been hereditary for 600 years, descends from uncle to nephew since no Patriarch marries...
Divorced. John J. Raskob Jr., 33, son of the former Democratic National Chair man ; from Minerva Aaronson Raskob, 29, former New Haven typist whom he mar ried while at Yale; after nine and a half years of marriage; in Reno...
...wealthy, to improve a yacht basin for a yacht club, to construct a ski jump in New Hampshire, to pay the expenses of Deputy WPA Administrator Howard 0. Hunter to Kentucky Derbies, to provide free tea parties and banquets for Government officials and local politicians. At Del Mar, Calif., $521,047 of WPA funds was used to build a race track which was later sold to Bing Crosby, in a deal in which WPA was admittedly "taken for a ride." The report also said that Communists had worked their way into New York projects...
...feet high on a pass of the Great Divide. Chief advantage of Climax is a daily cloudburst, which lasts about an hour, washes the sky an intense blue, clear as any in the Western Hemisphere. No drifting motes of dust can settle on the coronagraph lens to mar the view...