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Only one monarch is buying jewels today: Persia's Reza Shah Pahlavi...
...Tunney of the Connecticut Naval Militia obtained a three-year leave of absence and prepared to sail for Syria, where he will join a scientific tractor-caravan expedition being organized by Vice President Georges Marie Haardt of Citroen Corp. to follow the route of Marco Polo across Syria, Irak, Persia, Afghanistan, Tibet, China. Mrs. Polly Lauder Tunney planned to go as far as Beirut. Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross of Connecticut who lately majored Tunney for his staff, expressed regret...
...Royal Academy. But there was this difference : nearly every picture in the Flemish and Italian shows was familiar by reputation at least not only to critics but to the average intelligent tour ist. The Persian exhibition brought to gether for the first time thousands of objects from Persia, from unknown sources all over Europe hitherto absolutely inaccessible (TIME...
Arthur Upham Pope seems healthy but no company will insure him. He travels everywhere by airplane, writes scathing letters to airline officials on the difficulty of typing or studying in their planes. In Persia he is intimate with the Shah, risks his life almost daily photographing mosques and sacred tombs.* Last April Archeologist Pope decided that what the U. S. needed was an American Institute for Persian Art & Archeology, to do learned digging in Per sia, provide scholarships, publish mono graphs. In a few weeks he had dazzled such tycoons and pundits as Mortimer Leo Schiff, Professor Arthur Kingsley...
...convince the Royal Academy of the desirability of a Persian exhibition was child's play. Maintenance of friendly relations with Persia and Afghanistan are vital to Britain's defense of India. Persia has added British importance as the site of enormously rich British-controlled oil fields...