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Finally Siamese are unaffectedly religious, which is not to say good or goody-goody. Buddhist priests in plain yellow robes go from house to house in the early mornings, stop motionless and silent before each door proffering a bowl. If no food is placed in the bowl the priest moves on. If food is forthcoming, as it nearly everywhere is, he hurries with his bowl to the Buddhist monastery, shares with his fellows, devotes the rest of the morning and the day to religious duties...
...literature. He is a Distinguished Service Medalist, a Companion of the Bath, a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Medicine has given him a "homage book," like the one it recently gave Professor James Ewing (TIME, Jan. 12). Not his least valued kudos is the Montclair Yale Bowl given each year by Yale alumni living in Montclair, N. J. to one distinguished Yale man who has achieved his "Y in Life...
...applicants. The file approached the altar where stood stout Mother Catherine, adorned by a white headdress and a starched apron with the word MOTHER embroidered in red across its bib. On a side table was a huge brown bottle of warm castor oil, which she had blessed, and a bowl of quartered lemons, "taste-killers." To each one with the "miseries," a saint gave a full tumbler of the tepid oil and a "taste-killer." Away each would prance, blubbering oil and lemon juice, shouting "bress sweet Jesus." Occasionally Mother Catherine conducted "Epsom Salts Sundays...
...attempt at incendiarism, they confessed, was made with a crude kerosene fire bomb in December 1929. It failed. Twice again the plotters tried unsuccessfully to burn the wooden forms surrounding the concrete beams of a cell-block under construction. Fourth and successful attempt was made by filling a gravy bowl with oil and shavings, using two candles for a fuse...
...known in ancient times as opus interrasile, one of the most beautiful and expensive kinds of workmanship then practiced in the Near East. The decorations are a continuous network of leaves, stems, branches, birds and human figures, from which the background has been cut away, so that the inner bowl is visible. The most striking part of all this elaborate carving are the twelve seated figures. These are identified as Jesus- once as a boy and once as an adult-and some of the disciples: Jude and James, Peter, Paul, Mark, Matthew, John and James the Greater. Dr. Eisen regards...