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Charlemagne was buried in a Persian shroud, and the late John Singer Sargent thought a certain Persian carpet "worth all the pictures ever painted." But, as connoisseurs know, weaving was not the only beautiful art of the Persians. Scholars may be engrossed by the Survey's detailed evidence that Persian art began even before Egypt's, that its course from 4000 B.C. to 1700 A.D. is the longest unbroken art tradition in human history, that it was the fountainhead of all Moslem art and the great synthesizer of the Orient, that such structural standbys as ribbed, transversal vaulting...
Hearing that Mrs. Knox had dug in her garden at night, police took spades and unearthed an old kitchen cabinet. Inside, wrapped in a black shroud, were the remains of Mrs. Lucinda Trow, buried about six months. Then police reported that they had found in Abel, la. a decree, dated 1934, purporting to divorce Maybelle Trow from Sumner Knox...
Breeziest, most rambunctious, most irreverent of Broadway's daily critics is the Journal and American's tall, ruddy John Anderson. In his chili-sauce style, he has sassed Walter Winchell. greeted a stage character who took too long to die with "Here's your shroud, Mr. Quimby, what's your hurry?", described a play as having "the same relation to the drama as a dollar watch has to the Greenwich Observatory." This week Critic Anderson has published a richly illustrated book on the U. S. theatre,* turning its history into a swift, 100-page dash...
Inside the black shroud was Clerk Cloe Mitchell. From a Rogers doctor he had borrowed skull and arm bones and at least for a time after passing Spectre Mitchell, motorists, particularly colored ones, slowed down. Declared State Police Superintendent Albright: "Statues of the Grim Reaper on highways would cause motorists to drive with caution...
Three days later, Ranger started for Newport, towed by the Vanderbilt yacht Vara. Off Seguin Island, a heavy sea was running. The roll caused a turnbuckle to break on an upper shroud. This tiny mishap put additional strain on the other stays, which snapped one by one all through the night. Soon after dawn, off Gloucester, the towering mast finally crashed over the side, carrying all the rigging with it. Said Harold ("Mike") Vanderbilt: "Bad luck!" At Bristol, R. I., workmen prepared to fit Ranger with the mast that used to belong to the old Vanderbilt yacht Rainbow...