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Arabia- "Have discovered legendary city of Sheba. Twenty towers or temples still standing. On north boundary Rouba-el-Khali. Have taken photographs for l'Intransigeant-André Malraux." Those electric words, cabled from Djibouti in far-off French Somaliland, last week jerked the editors of Paris' evening paper l'Intransigeant from their mulling over the Stavisky scandal. Soon across the front pages of the world Press flashed what promised to be either the archeological story-of-the-year or the year's No. 1 archeological hoax. André Malraux is a handsome young writer...
...aviator who claimed to have seen the capital city of the Queen of Sheba in a flight over a section of waste land in Southern Arabia midway between the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea probably saw the ruins of some ancient city, but it is doubtful whether it was ever the home of the famous queen," said Kirsopp Lake, professor of History, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday. "The main reason for believing that it is not her city is that the volume of trade which was reputed to have flowed into her kingdom would never have been...
...Little is known about the Queen of Sheba; her fame has come mostly from the many legends written about her in every language of the world. Always a glamorous figure, she has lived in literature. True, the Bible mentions a Queen of Sheba who was supposed to have ruled over the Sabaeans, a tribe which lived in central Arabia in the small section of inhabitable land which there is in the country. This district is little known archaeologically, however, but exploration may discover other traces of the Sabaeans. Unfortunately, they were little addicted to writing tablets telling of their actions...
...performance of Rigoletto by the Palestine Opera Company, she was one and a half hours late and she did not "waddle like an ambulating lump of cocoa butter." Hindered on all sides by thousands who thronged the square in front of the building to see the modern Queen of Sheba, her walk, though slow and halting, was nonetheless queenly. Were she slimmer, eyes on Lenox Avenue would raise a notch as she passed...
...dedicate an Abyssinian Coptic Christian Church. Jerusalem's handful of Abyssinians excitedly waved date palms. A crowd of Coptic priests, Abyssinian officials and Palestine's Acting High Commissioner Mark Aitchison Young, all tried to make the fat brown beauty feel as happy as the Queen of Sheba. Only a 20th Century Solomon was lacking. Jerusalem's present ruler, stiff Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, British High Commissioner of Palestine, was at home in England...