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Persian Rugs. As Lieut. General George S. Patton's infantry closed on Metz from the north, west and south, the outer string of forts put up only feeble resistance, sometimes none at all. Some had no weapons bigger than machine guns, and some seemed to be used chiefly for...
In spite of his seven-league-boot habits of scholarship and composition, Will Durant is a master of synthesis arid luminous narrative. Caesar and Christ, third volume of the monumental Story of Civilization which he expects to finish by 1955 (already published: Our Oriental Heritage; The Life of Greece), may...
Rainbow Island (Paramount) is a Technicolored mythical kingdom somewhere west of Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard, inhabited by Dorothy Lamour and sarong, three shipwrecked seamen (Eddie Bracken, Gil Lamb, Barry Sullivan), and assorted natives. It involves: 1) an aquacade sequence-a ritual of "purification" for Miss Lamour; 2) a comedy...
Oriental harems and Freudian philosophy both find their place among the fall book releases of the Harvard University Press. "Suleiman the Magnificent," by Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, and "Freud Master and Friend," by Hanns Sachs, instructor in Psychology, are among the publications.
The grass is Zoysia matrella (Manila grass), an oriental variety with which U.S. horticulturists began to experiment five years ago. Park Superintendent Leo Goss of Louisville has covered four acres of Seneca Park with Zoysia, spread its fame among U.S. greenskeepers. Propagated from runners* instead of seed, Zoysia spreads quickly...