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...glance, it appeared that this escape of Ignatz from a hair net was a brilliant piece of work. The assumption proved unwarranted. In his haste to leave, Dr. Griebl, naturalized in 1926, had forgotten to take along his U. S. passport. At Cherbourg French authorities were denied permission to search the ship for him. When the Bremen docked in Germany, he was promptly arrested, fined 60 marks ($25) permitted to remain. Reporters jumped to the conclusion that Griebl, ready to turn state's evidence, had been kidnapped by loyal spies on the Bremen, or, having fooled Department of Justice...
...Arthur Evans was the man who made the discoveries of Minoan art in Crete that affected the whole conception of early Grecian history. His collection for the most part was not acquired from other connoisseurs nor from dealers but was gathered during a lifetime of personal search. He picked up his first gem in a bazaar in Bosnia on a youthful walking trip, found others during seven years of research on the Eastern Adriatic shores and in travels around Sicily. Most of them, however, came in the period of his digging in Crete, where he even found them worn...
Immediate search was begun for cadaverous-faced, black-mustached Plinio Salgado, the "Supreme Chief of the Green Shirts" who has been in hiding since Vargas outlawed the movement as a political party (TIME, Nov. 22). At last reports Salgado was still hiding. Arrested as leaders of the Putsch were Belmiro Valdeverde, chief of the "Revolutionary Dissident Wing" of the Party, and Admiral Eduardo Taveres...
...last few years, however, stores have taken steps to make their art departments at least as interesting as their advertising, and last week in Manhattan the John Wanamaker store cut loose with nothing less than the second annual exhibition of the American Artists' Congress. Wanamaker patrons in search of home furnishings were thus led to see some 235 examples of the livest professional work being done...
What Author Crow particularly liked about Confucius was that he attempted to found no religion, on the contrary disliked nothing more than.mystics and professional philosophers. He was really, says Author Crow, a brilliant scholar in search of an honest political job. With Chinese politics what they are, and Confucius the cautious kibitzer he was, he was 50 years old before he found one, as governor of a province. Besides giving the province the best government it had ever had, he also astonished his disciples as a master of realpolitik. His good-government policy was simple. He merely designated the following...