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Leading candidate for full back is Englishman John Alden, first Divinity School rugger in some time. Freshman fly half Don Shojai has come to the team from Persia via Hertfordshire...
...City Art Museum of St. Louis last week was staging a show of 367 art works priced at $4 to $1,200 apiece. Art objects of various neglected periods proved to be even better bargains than contemporary pictures by little-known artists. Sample rates: a bronze reindeer from ancient Persia for $632.50, a 5,000-year-old "female divinity" from Sumer for $103.50, an ancient Egyptian bronze statuette of Anubis for $172.50, a Tarascan warrior for $200, a Coptic bone statuette for $28.75, Etruscan earrings for $189.75, and two highly stylized Spanish and Greek bronzes for $200 (left...
...because his grandfather's will provides for his education but sets no time limit. Student Orson Bean falls in love with Sheree, and School President Charles Coburn sets out to woo Bean's millionaire father ("He's been in the East somewhere," says Coburn thoughtfully. "Arabia. Persia, one of those Yvonne de Carlo countries...
...statue was carved 50 years ago by a Mexican sculptor as one of ten giant figures of lawmakers to adorn the new home of the first Appellate Department of the New York court system, overlooking Manhattan's Madison Square. The other nine were Moses, Hindustan's Manu, Persia's Zoroaster, Sparta's Lycurgus, Athens' Solon, China's Confucius, Byzantium's Justinian, Wessex' Alfred and France's Louis IX. An odd list, but it is easy to see what those who drew it up had in mind. They wanted to express...
...Princess Shahnaz, the only child of that marriage, is barred from succession by Iranian law. Since the death of the Shah's brother, Prince Ali Reza, in a plane crash last month (TIME, Nov. 15), there is no heir to the Peacock Throne of Persia...