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The Conquerors was an immediate critical success but sold badly. Living with his wife and two servants in a little apartment on the Rue du Bac - four rooms filled with Khmer statuary, Oriental books and hand-painted Persian linen panels on the walls - Malraux remained as secretive in Paris as...
In Hankow, delegates to the emergency session of the Kuomintang Party Congress, elated over recent Chinese successes, conferred on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek the title "Tsung Tsai" of the Kuomintang. China's dominant party. "Tsung Tsai" has almost thesame meaning as "tsung Li," the Kuomanting title fro Dr. Sun...
The book has double meaning for anyone who has studied under Mr. Lowes. If there is one poet who has written in English in the past three hundred years, surely John Keats is that poet on whom nearly everyone agrees, extremist and sit-tighter alike. Why, then, in an age...
The Danforth & Swann oscillion is a simple-looking oblong wooden box with an electrical circuit inside. Current flows through a resistance, is stored up in a condenser, spills into a neon tube, becomes a series of electrical "pulses." A loud speaker translates the pulses into sound.
Six years ago a tall Ojibway Indian named Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin, which he translates as Grey Owl, headed west from northern Ontario with a family of beaver. With a view to popularizing his campaign to preserve wild life, Grey Owl had started a colony of these engaging little animals...