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...dusty plain in the northern Province of Wallo last week a round-eyed dark-faced kinky-haired boy of 19 stood on a rug-draped platform of dried mud. To the rattle of war drums Ethiopian chieftains with lion-mane headdresses and gold embossed shields clustered protectively about the royal youngster. Across the field rolled a white-rimmed dust cloud out of which moved a horde of 100,000 yelling black warriors. Beyond the reviewing stand the troopers halted, faced to the north, where 100 miles away lay the town of Adowa. Then to a man they...
...ancient Minoan. Next in this progress of lady Narcissists is Greece's Helen of Troy sizzling her hair on a curling stick and smirking at the Greek fleet coming to retrieve her. Further on, Rome's Julius Caesar (British Museum bust) looks sourly at a rolled rug from whose far end stick the feet of wily Cleopatra. Nearby a Roman lady takes a hot tub bath. Another walks on her hands, sticking out her stomach at beauteous Mumtaz Mahal for whom the Taj Mahal was built...
...crowd which crowded the Dining Hall to overflowing registered emphatic approval of the tutors' antics as Falstaff's ragamuffin soldiers. An worldly horde they formed featuring Mess Potter and Bissell the former with great fur rug glued to his with a and the latter coyly holding chest depicting a frolicking baby Elephant...
...Provincetown, Mass. Son Coulton is a ship painter & illustrator and nautical expert. Daughter Gwenyth, a costume designer, is married to Artist James Floyd Clymer. The combined Waughs own 13 houses in Provincetown, operate on a section of Main Street known as Waughville, the Ship Model Shop, the Hooked Rug Shop & Hookery. As a hobby Artist Waugh likes carpentry, gardening and making souvenir boxes of sea shells. His prides are a pâpiermaché castle he once built for his children and a chandelier made of old whale bones dug up on the beach...
...ordinary U. S. reader, "Armenian" suggests Levantine rug-dealers, massacres, Michael Arlen. But last week Author Franz Werfel gave the word a new and heroic significance. In The Forty Days of Musa Dagh he recited an Armenian epic founded on an actual incident of the World War. Humanizing one more bloody no-man's-land, this 817-page novel immediately takes its place, with All Quiet on the Western Front and The Case of Sergeant Grischa, as one of the War's big books...