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...return to the land of his birth. Last week word reached China that, instead, His Serenity had gone to his Nirvana, aged 54. The thoroughly kindly, intelligent pontiff had died at the Tibetan border town of Jyekundo where, for days, his priestly retinue had twirled prayer wheels, chanted the mystic syllables Om Mani Padme...
...Massachusetts Historical Society, The American Academy of Arts, and The American Historical and Sciences Society include him as a member. Among his writings of the ancient world are "A History of the Ancient World," "The Roman Empire," and "Mystic Italy...
...since 1920 Swedish Minister to the Court of St. James, let it be known he had resigned his post effective January 1. Reason: to devote full time to spiritualism, on which he has composed a book (Horizon of Immortality). London gossip said his decision was the result of mystic advice supplied him at a seance...
Three whole days later Berlin correspondents still were unable to get any official German source to confirm that Dr. Schacht is no longer Minister of Economics. Apparently mystic Adolf Hitler wants to keep for Germany the talismanic kudos of the Schacht name in the world of international finance, while at the same time permitting General Göring to indulge in expenditures for rearmament on a scale Dr. Schacht has warned is beyond the practical limits of Germany's resources. From 1 p. m. until 6 p. m. one day last week General Göring conferred with...
...background of mine breakers and hills; Jury, whose procession of fat and lean brainless bourgeois figures directly recalled Daumier's treatments of the same subject; The Liberals, which presents, out on a limb, the Scientist, the Man who Sees Both Sides, the Indecisive Man, the Scholar, the Hysterical Mystic, the Infantile Man, the Man who Waits for the Right Time, while red-bannered masses see the forward and underneath...