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...Moroccans. He long commanded the Spanish Foreign Legion in this sphere of influence. Last year he made friendly gestures to Allah's people as soon as he set up his Government. One of these gestures was to invite several hundred prominent Moroccans to make the holy pilgrimage to Mecca free on a Spanish Rightist steamer, and this most conveniently came steaming home last week. Up to thank the Generalissimo in Seville rushed the whole Mecca contingent of Moroccan dignitaries, overflowing with the grace of Allah and headed by their native Sultan's Grand Vizier...
...today his name means next to nothing. Now, 30 years after the last serious biography of "England's neglected genius," readers are offered a well-written account of the greatest Orientalist of his day, speaker of over 20 languages, uncompromising enemy of Victorian conventions, first Englishman to enter Mecca, first to explore Somaliland, discoverer of Lake Tanganyika, famed swordsman, author of 40-odd books including a 15-volume translation in English. The result is a leading portrait in that gallery of "indomitable madmen who," as Aldous Huxley says, "have made the British Empire and English literature the extraordinary things...
What the Vatican is to Catholics, the Ganges to Hindus and Fujiyama to Japanese, a small black meteor head-high in the southeast corner of a rough stone building called the Kaaba in Mecca is to Mohammedans. Every Moslem plans someday to make the hajj, or pilgrimage, to kiss this most sacred of all objects, the Black Stone. On camel, burro, foot and occasionally hands & knees, some 70,000 devotees annually make the hajj over the desert sands to Mecca. Last week, fat, wealthy Mussulmen loath to subject themselves to such a hot, dusty, brigand-infested journey...
...merely locked up for life. Some of these prisoners succeeded to the throne after a lifetime, "when they had all but lost the power of speech, and their minds and bodies were like vegetables." But now, says Penzer, the days of the harem are over. (Only one extant: in Mecca.) When Abd ul-Hamid's big family was broken up, most of his wives went back to the land. And since there is no more harem, there are no more eunuchs. While he was in Turkey, Penzer looked high & low, despite all his efforts "met only two, or possibly...
...presence of Professor Gropius at Harvard will, in the opinion of those who know his work and personality, make the School of Design a mecca for the best architectural talent in the country. It is believed by observers that his influence in every way will be felt strongly and at once, and that that influence will be an entirely beneficial one for the School and the University. His appointment is indeed a fortunate one, and Dean Hudnut is to be congratulated on his success in securing...