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Iraq- "Squat and thickset, with head disproportionately large, the woman stands holding her hands before her breast. She wears the traditional garment of sheepskin and her hair, gathered in a heavy roll, is confined by a fillet of lapis lazuli inlay. The eyes are of shell and lapis lazuli and the eyebrows are inlaid with bituminous paste." Thus did Dr. Charles Leonard Woolley report one of his latest finds. A popeyed, club-footed little figure of alabaster, 10 in. high, found in a soldier's grave with its head touching the blade of the warrior's bronze...
...years ago a shy, white-thatched little man with drooping mustaches and a twinkle in his eye went to Chicago to exhibit his best beef cattle in the International Life Stock Exposition. His Briarcliff Thickset, a sleek black Aberdeen Angus, was named grand champion steer. Oakleigh Thorne, gentleman farmer, was pleased as Punch. A retired capitalist, a onetime president of Manhattan's Corporation Trust Co., he had been raising cattle since 1918 when he bought a 4,000 acre farm in Dutchess County, N. Y. Eastern dairymen had pooh-poohed the idea of large-scale beef cattle raising...
...orchestra season opens in three heats: Eastern orchestras first, Midwestern next, far Western last. Boston, Manhattan and Philadelphia were well embarked on their seasons last week when simultaneously in Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Detroit four batons began cutting the air. Elderly, thickset Frederick Stock held the stick for Chicago, stalwart, British Eugene Goossens for Cincinnati, brisk Nikolai Sokoloff for Cleveland, quiet, slow-moving Ossip Gabrilowitsch for Detroit. The Midwestern conductors chose safe & sane courses last week, free from hazardous, modernistic hurdles...
Silent on the platform sat Dictator Josef Stalin, and to No. i Correspondent Walter Duranty the Man of Steel looked "benevolent." Comrade Vyacheslav Molotov, the thickset, middle-aged Soviet Premier, talked. Six hundred stomachs quaked with laughter when he said: ''We are trying to erect next year more blast furnaces than the United States will close down...
While a monster bull from Assyria was exciting admiration on one side of Chicago last week (see p. 23) a chunky little steer from New York was being admired on another side of town, at the annual International Livestock Exposition in Union Stockyards. He was Briarcliff Thickset, a glossy Aberdeen Angus eleven months old, whose 1,140 lb. of bone, gristle and good red meat were formed so well and in such good condition that the judges named him world's grand champion, Steer of the Year. Being a steer, Briarcliff Thickset was good for nothing but the slaughter...