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...death. Leader of the dervishes was 94-year-old Sheik Abdul Hassan, who sat cross-legged on the floor of his prison cell, dressed in an expensive fur-lined overcoat, taking snuff and murmuring "Bismillah!" ("In the name of God!") The night before he was to mount the scaffold at Menemen he quietly died...
Ismael Husseyin stood on that scaffold with the rest of the condemned. While hangmen twisted ropes round his colleagues' necks he suddenly leaped away, fled through the streets followed by whizzing bullets, a dozen yapping curs, and most of Menemen's many...
...came to guess her weight, Frau Kardos screamed hysterically. But later she ate a large bowl of steaming goulash, passed the night on her knees praying. Next morning, before being led out to die, she drained several glasses of brandy rapidly, alternately wept and prayed until she mounted the scaffold...
...John Simon, president of the Board of Inquiry, directed Inspector McWade to a great model of the R-IOI which hung from a scaffold beside his bench like an effigy dangling from a gallows, there fired questions for the witness to answer tangibly...
...Metropolitan Museum, Manhattan. Two of his huge canvases are part of the loan exhibition of Mexican art circulated by the Carnegie Institute and the American Federation of Arts, sponsored by ex-Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow and Dr. Frederick A. Keppel. Artist Orozco himself is further downtown squatting on a scaffold in the new School of Social Research, painting great swirling designs on wet plaster with a very small brush. Beside him his master plasterer and assistant Juan Jorge Crespo, prepares the wall for Orozco to paint, two square yards at a time. "Fresco painting," explained Artist Orozco, "has much...