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...across teeming Nanking Road. Two hundred and twenty people were killed and mangled. And had the ghastly scene been directed in a Hollywood studio, the cinematography could scarcely have been handled better. The MARCH OF TIME'S Cameraman Harrison Forman, an aviator, explorer and author just down from Tibet, was sitting inside the Cathay when the terrifying explosion took place. The Hearst News of the Day's, Shanghai man, a daredevil called "Newsreel" Wong, was behind the counter of his camera shop, two blocks away. Universal's, George Krainukov, who had just had his camera shot...
...tall, ascetic English explorer named Layeville, most understanding one of the lot, came to a more agonizing end than the others. Plunging on alone into the Kuenlun Mountains of Tibet, he was trapped in a snowstorm, endured 30 days of unspeakable physical horror before he found peace as he lay dying in the snow, surrounded by the ice-coated corpses of his guides. Sick, decadent La Scaze, a rich Frenchman, voluptuary, onetime author, remained in Aqsu to recover from fever. Inert and drugged through most of his stay, he awakened when he saw a flawlessly beautiful native girl, who died...
...long as the world has been turning, dissatisfied thinkers--philosophers we term them--have envisioned Utopias, Paradise, Fountains of Youth like Hilton's "Shangri-la". The Utopia of the young Englishman is situated obscurely beyond the last bit of civilization amid the white mountains of Tibet. To this impossible place is brought kidnapped Robert Conway, England's Eden-to-be. The High Llama, a French priest who stumbled upon Shangri-la in 1713 and claims to be over 200 years, old, informs Conway that he is to guard like a monk of the Middle Ages the treasures of the world...
...Donald Scott's annual report on the activities of the Peabody Museum indicates the extent and diversification of Harvard's anthropological research. A Boston newspaper's headline, pointing to Tibet and Chelsea, Massachusetts as marking the division's scope of study, gives an accurate idea of this diversification. The various scenes of investigation, however, do not mean that the Museum lacks a unified objective, which, as Mr. Scott explains, is to assemble complete series of data which will illustrate such occurrences "as the spread of Paleolithic and neolithic man over all three continents of the Old World...
Farther to the east, Dr. Gordon T. Bowles and his wife have secured anthropometric data on five thousand individuals in the Indian foothill area. The particular purpose of this survey was to analyze racial origins and migrations along the significant borderland of India and Tibet, the investigation extending from the extreme northwest to Assam and Burma...