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...languages other than English is Reader's Digest, which has editions in Spanish (800,000 copies) and Portuguese (400,000), largely for Latin Americans, and in March will bring out a Swedish-language edition to be published in Stockholm (where paper is plentiful) and called Det Besta ur Reader's Digest (The Best from the Reader's Digest...
...separate wartime unit. Last week the Munitions Building bristled with reports that that pattern was to be repeated. Scheduled by rumor to take over motor transport and boss it for World War II was no engineer, no soldier, but a tough transportation man: Chicago's John D. (Drive-Ur-Self) Hertz...
...field of any dimension up to, and possibly including, infinity. It is Perambulator Klee's frequent achievement not only to imagine such a field for himself but to open it up somehow to the spectator. One water color in last week's show, Bird, Ph Feeds Ur with the Snake, at first sight only a delicately smoky paper with a tangle of lines in the centre, suggested a cosmic twilight and the chaotic, prehistoric figures of monsters. In another kind of shorthand, a gouache called Winter Flowers showed a pattern of slim stems and frosty white blooms against...
Born in Damascus, made Bishop of Baghdad in 1912, Syrian Dallal in 1926 became spiritual leader of Syrians whose faith is one of Christendom's oldest, who live on the sites of such ancient places as Ur, Nineveh and Babylon. Like his swart, bearded self, many of his flock exhibit in their countenances traces of their Jewish ancestry. Archbishop Dallal will find uncounted Syrian Rite noses in half-a-dozen U. S. cities, particularly Grand Rapids, Mich. and Jacksonville...
...reports reached Aleppo in Syria that Mr. Bache had penetrated the Twelfth Level, representing a town of minor importance, was starting to excavate the Thirteenth Level, a town which he called "P Prlent" and which he believed was built 6,000 years before Christ. It was thus older than Ur by 2,000 years...