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...June 1756, Suraj-ud-Dowlah, Nawab of Bengal, capturing Fort William at Calcutta, put 146 English prisoners into a dungeon, 18 ft. by 14 ft., with two small windows. After one night in the dungeon, all but 23 of the prisoners were dead. The shot of the Black Hole of Calcutta in Clive of India cost $30,000, stays on the screen for 15 seconds...
Sartip Riza marched with supreme bold ness on Teheran and such was the Army's disgust with do-nothing Ahmed Shah that a few hours of quiet maneuvering turned the trick as whole battalions went over to Publisher Saiyid Zia-ud-Din's revolution. Not long after the publisher found he had made the mistake of his life. The upstart Sartip had got himself appointed Minister of War and the publisher was exiled to Baghdad. Two years passed while brooding Riza Khan intrigued, cajoled and bribed among the military, forcing his deep plans and domineering power to triumph...
...failed, Author Powys confines the 1,174 pages of his latest fanciful vignette within the covers of a single book. Hard on the reader's wrist, its insistent author's perverse philosophizing is liable to be hard on many a reader's patience too. "Folks 'ud rayther brew their own broth theyselves then be fed wi' all the Milk o' Paradise" is a bit of Penny Pitches' Glastonbury wisdom that fits the odd-lot characters in Author Powys' romance. Glastonbury's broth begins to bubble & boil at the reading...
...Persian Gulf. The journey emptied geography of ignorance, emptied also any hopes of discovering a better world on Planet Earth. The cartographical blind spot had been filled in with 600 miles of burning sand. An "unprecedented suspension of blood feuds" among the Arabs, due to Bin Sa'ud's benign but determined autocracy, made the journey possible. From the coast of the Arabian Sea, Explorer Thomas sent inland two Rashidi tribesmen to collect camels, men to conduct him over the Qara mountains to the desert's edge. Shaikh Salih went ahead to organize a relay, prepare...
Results of a survey by the United Press to determine the world's richest man were published. First on the list was this name: His Exalted Highness Asaf Jah Muzaf-far-ul-Mulk-Wal-Mamalik Nizam-ul-Mulk Nizam-ud-Daula, Nawab Mir Sir Usman Ali Khan Bahadur Fateh Jung, 44, the Nizam of Hyderabad in India (TIME, Nov. 24). His wealth in gold bricks and coins is estimated at $1,000,000,000. His wealth in jewels is uncounted. Second on the list comes John Davison Rockefeller Jr. He is followed by Henry and Edsel Bryant Ford; next...