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...Jerusalem, toward noon one day last week, a white-robed old man with piercing eyes and a soldierly bearing walked across the compound of the Mosque of the Rock, believed by the faithful to enclose the rock from which the Prophet Mohamed rode to heaven on a white steed. King Abdullah of Jordan, who traces his descent from the Prophet himself, was making his weekly visit to the shrine to honor the Prophet and the memory of his own father, Hussein, onetime Sherif of Mecca (Custodian of the Holy Places) and King of the Hejaz, whose bones lie buried there...
Investigations into the speed of one steed as opposed to another take place daily expecting Sunday at Suffolk Downs in Revere. While Suffolk may lack the quaint touts of Jamaica and the flamingoes at Hialeah, it nevertheless holds eight races a day at purses which assure at least that the entrants will be horses. If the sun is out and the luck is with you, an afternoon at Suffolk can be exceedingly pleasant; or course, it might rain, you might lose. C'est tout pour le sport...
Sergeant Brown Wednesday night told the CRIMSON and other newspapers that his appearance at Harvard had "absolutely no connection" with the Dahlia slaying. However, Captain Blaine Steed of the Los Angeles Police Department refuted Brown's statement when contacted by the CRIMSON...
According to Steed, Brown was sent East primarily on an extradition matter, but was advised to interview two persons relative to background facts in the Dahlia case while in the Boston area. One was the former student and the other a waltress who had worked with the murdered woman...
...Booton Herndon were mobbed and beaten up when they attempted to photograph churchgoers leaving a Sunday-morning service. Vern and Herndon were doing a story on Ellenton's mass evacuation to make way for a hydrogen-bomb plant (TiME, Dec. 11). Explained Ellenton Police Chief John E. Steed: since being told they would have to move, "some people have been confused and hardly responsible for their actions...