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The Author. Born in Manchester, England (1895), black-haired Louis Golding started writing at 6, got a story published at 9. He left Oxford, where he was a leading esthete, to fight in Macedonia, returned to take his degree. Since then, on account of his health, he has traveled much...
In Istanbul 20,000 people shuffled into the great Byzantine Mosque of Santa Sophia on Ramadan's "Night of Power" to hear the first reading of the Koran, not in Arabic language of Mohammed, but in vulgar Turkish. The blood of the pious curdled. Many of the gaping crowd...
Mr. Filbert's life has been given up to details-a tireless march down endless columns of Arabic numerals. Row after row of digits, decimals, averages, percentages-he makes them talk, tells their secrets only to Steel's directors.
Only four times has Dr. Giffen visited the U. S. since he settled in the Sudan. In 1922 he was elected moderator of his church's general assembly. So unused had he become to the ways of U. S. Presbyterians that once, at a mission conference in Pittsburgh, he...
A fat volume, the Annual Report glances about the world, thus: "By general consent 1930 was a gloomy and depressing year in China's political history. . . . The political situation in Colombia has shown no improvement. . . . Burma was affected during the year by a series of local disasters. ..." Lyrically of...