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Since the first traders sailed the Nile it has been a law as certain as gravity that Art follows Business. European statesmen have made effort after effort to prevent their great paintings from drifting to the U. S. But foreign laws have not been enough to keep the U. S. from becoming more & more the art treasure house of the world. Because great collections of Old Masters, instead of being concentrated exclusively in metropolitan galleries, are spread among smaller cities, few U. S. citizens fully appreciate the sum total of their country's artistic riches. Last week Kansas City...
Count Prorok will leave Paris on December 10, 1933. His expedition will cover Lybian and the territory surrounding the Nile. Students who are interested may get in touch with James E. Boyack, 122 East 42nd Street, New York...
...closed with the words: "I really feel badly about shooting them." Nevertheless museum men predicted there would be real rivalry between the Davisons for the first kill, since they meant to shoot only at "Shambas," vicious-tempered outlaws.* Mrs. Davison's letter described their airplane flight up the Nile's twisting 2,500-mi. length to meet the Johnsons. After an hour aloft, they fervently wished themselves back at Cairo. "I give you my word " wrote Mrs. Davison, "it was worse than any dream of torment Dante could ever have conceived. The heat stood a solid wall even...
When the Greeks, during their African campaign discovered the two gigantic statues erected on the left bank of the Nile at Thebes, and dedicated to Amenophis III. they named the one further to the East Memnon after a hero of Greek mythology by the same name...
...quite as vast, but far less debatable. That the national investment in Muscle Shoals has remained too long in an inchoative stage is a criticism which few would care to dispute. And that flood control is not a quixotic dream the most superficial reveiw of British engineering on the Nile makes very clear. In detail, the Presidential message is sound and desirable enough; but in the abstract, a few uncomfortable difficulties arise...