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...Imperial Majesty, Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, ceremoniously hammered a golden spike into a railway tie last week. Later, excited Iranians in Teheran watched the first train to make the trip from Bandar Shahpur, on the inlet Khor Musa of the Persian Gulf, pull in to Iran's inland capital. Thus the Trans-Iranian Railway, most spectacular, most expensive railroad enterprise undertaken since the World War, was pronounced completed. The railroad is the dream come true of a westernizing, wilful ruler who still believes in the 19th-Century notion that railroad-building is a matter of national prestige...
Accurate Gold Coast figures have always been as hard to find as Dr. Livingstone. How much cocoa was being burned, no one knew, not even Mr. Winfried Musa Tete-Ansa, managing director of the Gold Coast and Ashanti Farmers Union, who last week was in Manhattan and available for questioning. Guesses ran from 500 tons to 5,000. Mr. Tete-Ansa himself has advised his farmers to burn "at least 40,000 tons." Last week the price was down to 6? a pound. Whether or not great quantities had been burned since October, only 44,000 tons of Gold Coast...
...been drilled by a shotgun at close range and buried in the Everglades 20 miles west of Miami. Shrugging Seminoles there said that he was an evildoer sent to be buried among strangers. In John Billy's home village, investigators finally learned that he had been shot on Musa Isle outside of Miami, that the killer was none other than John Osceola himself...
...Forty Days of Musa Dagh, Franz Werfel wrote a novel that was at once an account of an extraordinary military operation, a story of a successful resistance to tyranny, a tribute to simple religious fervor. Containing more heavily mystical passages than most best-sellers (total sales 158,000 copies), it made up for them with excellent descriptions of well-planned, hard-fought, hand-to-hand battles. Moreover, it had the inherent excitement of a struggle in which a hopelessly outnumbered force decides to fight, turns on its enemy and wins...
...Forty Days of Musa Dagh (TIME, Dec. 3, 1934) was one of the best-sellers of 1935, but Franz Werfel had written good books before that. Two of them (Class Reunion, The Man Who Conquered Death) reappeared last week in a collection of eight short novels and long stories ay Author Werfel. The world whose twilight is pictured here is the old, pre-War Austria; the crazy-quilt empire of 13 peoples, 24 countries whose imperial idea was embodied in one aloof, white-whiskered old man. Emperor Franz Joseph, says Werfel, was one of the few who understood the Idea...