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...collected rugs, he has traveled over 300,000 miles in search of his textile treasures. Some of them cost him as much as $35,000 and years of pursuit, and with the acquisition of almost every one is connected a tale of adventure or hardship. Two Seljuk " bird rugs," woven in 1550, were secured in Constantinople in 1922 and went with him through the sack and massacre of Smyrna. Hungary, Thrace, Rhodes, Asia Minor, Persia, Bagdad, Damascus-all are represented...
...comedy actress, in Paris. She charged desertion. He succeeded Charles M. Schwab in 1903 as President of the U. S. Steel Corporation at $100,000 a year, then a record salary for a corporation executive in the U. S. After seeing the then Miss Gilman act in The Mocking Bird, he settled $1,000,000 on his first wife, " consented" to her divorcing him and married Miss Gilman in 1907. He resigned from the Presidency of the U. S. Steel Corporation shortly afterwards, allegedly at the request of the Directors...
...Immortales Di!" shrieked the Blot, and disappeared beneath the inrushing flood. The jester used his baton to paddle his chair to the Ibis, who was singing a last swan-song. As the weight of his bells capsized Lampy into the angry waters, the wise bird gurgled, "Though we may die to prove it, we shall never be funny...
SARAH OP THE SAHARA-Walter E. Traprock - Putnam ($2.50). Dr. Traprock, discoverer of the fatu-liva bird and hero of My Northern Exposure, plunges into the passionate sands of the land of the Twin-Bedouins in search of love, adventure and the tomb of Dimitrino the First. His romance with Lady Sarah Wimpole burns like an incandescent lamp. Lions, sheiks and whiffle-hens bar his way, and after quite unbelievable exploits he is left alone with his memories. A take-off on the popular Sheik brand of fiction, adequately mirth-provoking though not quite so good as The Cruise...
...smallest vessels to cross the Atlantic. The members of our research party were Dr. William Erving of John Hopkins, Mr. Harry Armony of Harvard who owned and navigated the schooner, my-self and crew. The purpose of the expedition was to collect zoological specimens, especially of the bird life of the West African Island and to make a general study of these islands and their inhabitants...