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...Georgia, Russia, announced that Barbara had finally consented to marry him. This was real news in anybody's paper. It got better when the prince relinquished any future claim to Barbara's fortune, having first received $1,000,000 from her. Then he married her in Byzantine splendor in Paris' Russian Orthodox Church. Hiring half a deck of an ocean liner, they set off for a round-the-world honeymoon...
...view of the above bit of Biblical maritime history, antiquarians have long been convinced that King Solomon in his years of splendor had a port on the Red Sea, but they did not know where it was. Last week Dr. Millar Burrows of Yale announced that the port had been found by explorations and excavations near Aqaba. The finder is Dr. Nelson Glueck, heading an expedition of the American School for Oriental Research. Aqaba is a town encircled by towering granite hills on a narrow gulf at the Red Sea's northern end. During the War it was captured...
...good fortune as the representative for the moment of the Society that has always honored scholarship, to express the gratitude of those who in the splendor of the new building will remember the profitable hours spent in Gore Hall. The Library shares and will continue to share with our museums and gardens, our hospitals and laboratories, in the glory of making this spot one of the intellectual centres of the world. Here books are not kept in prison but are open to the use of all without undue restrictions. We often echo the lament of Ecclesiastes, but it is only...
Radiant in all her buxom splendor, brimming over with her famous "sex personality," platinum-haired Mae West surged into Boston yesterday and at the CRIMSON'S invitation expressed her desire to see Harvard as it really...
...National Gallery, the Tate Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum have contributed their finest paintings. The King, moreover, made a unique exception in allowing loans from the Royal collections. To this generosity the French responded by clearing five great rooms in the Louvre and restoring them to the splendor of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Insured for a total of $15,000,000, heavily guarded by Scotland Yard, 150 choice paintings and some 200 water colors and drawings were shipped from England, many of them by air, to be hung in state at the heart of France...