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...airplane flight over Mt. Everest. You published the picture of the Maharaja of Nepal and mention how this "wily Mongol above whose small craggy kingdom the flight took place, did not want Britishers taking too many pictures over his head." This is a picture of the Maharaja Sir Chandra Shem Shur Jang Bahada Rana who died some five years ago. It is hard to understand how your reporter got into communication with him since his ashes have long been scattered on the water of the Holy River Bagmota at the famous Pashphati Shrine...
When a comparatively unknown horse wins a race at short odds, racing officials are likely to be curious. They were curious last September when a little-known horse named Shem won a race at Havre de Grace. Investigation showed that the horse was not Shem but a four-year-old named Aknahton, disguised with dye. Havre de Grace officials satisfied themselves that gamblers had arranged the dyeing, suspended nine of them, including notorious Nathan ("Nigger Nate") Raymond. They traced the career of Aknahton to a small town in Indiana, where he dropped out of sight...
...must know the markings of the horse so the 'ringer' can be made up accordingly. It costs about $100 to dye a horse. . . . Before you put the dye on it's necessary to sweat the horse and dry him out. . . . "When we rung Aknahton as Shem at Havre de Grace, I shipped the horse back to Jamaica, then sent him to Crown Point, Ind., where . . . the Pinkertons located him. . . . I gave a certain police official $500 . . . and they never saw him again until at Hialeah. . . . Well, the Pinks had a picture of me taken in England...
Tonight's program is as follows: Harvard Hymn Paine Turn Ye To Me Scotch Folk Song My Spirit Be Joyful Bach Ave Verum Byrd Salamaleikum Cornelius Chorus from the Sons of Shem Rubinstein Inimici Autem Lassus Coronation Scene from "Boris" Moussorgsky
Sholom Asch, No. 1 Yiddish novelist, was born (1880) in Kutno, near Poland's Warsaw. In 1910 he came to the U. S., lived for five years on Manhattan's Staten Island. Few of his novels (Uncle Moses, Kiddush Ha-Shem) have been translated; one of his plays (God of Vengeance), though several have been produced by the Yiddish Art Theatre, Manhattan. In 1919 Sholom Asch returned to Europe, lives in Paris. Son Nathan (The Office, Love in Chartres), now in Paris, lives in Manhattan, writes in English...