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Long has the desert of Ruba-el-Khali ("Abode of Loneliness"), wild, waterless, utterly unknown, remained "the white blot on the map." The southern interior of Arabia, centre of population and geography of the Old World, circled by ocean liners and near airplane routes, its 300,000 sandy square miles have challenged and beaten back explorers since the Middle Ages. No European had seen its mysterious, lethal interior until this winter hardy Englishman Bertram Thomas trekked 900 mi. across its arid wastes, from Dhofar on the Arabian Sea to Dohah on the Persian Gulf, where he emerged last week...
...libraries in both John Winthrop House and Leverett House well be remodelled from the present dining rooms in Standish and McKinlock Halls. In Standish, shelves will be constructed along the walls, and the present serving rooms will become the stacks. The decoration in the interior will not be substantially changed, although it will probably be repainted...
master's bedrooms, and a student reception room having an entrance on the court. There will be another entrance for the use of the Master opening onto a garden between Eliot House and the present Standish Hall. The interior will be chiefly decorated with panelling, and there will be very little change in the exterior aside from the doors and an alcove on the Eliot side of the Master's house...
...public life who has received a large so-called 'nut' mail is conscious of the high percentage of cranks in our civilization.?Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur. Dr. Wilbur is Secretary of Interior, president of Stanford University and chairman of the American Medical Association's Council on Medical Education and Hospitals. As medical educator he was in Chicago last week for the council's annual meeting with the Federation of State Medical Boards and the American Conference on Hospital Service. Chicago was in its usual noisy municipal primary campaign with mayoralty candidates howling obscenities at each other. The doctors began...
...ordinary airplane of the same price. However, the designers declare that the possibilities of streamlining and other refinements have barely been touched. Inventor. Chubby, wealthy Juan de la Cierva, 37, is son of a Spanish statesman and lawyer. His father has been Minister of War, Minister of the Interior, last week was appointed Minister of Public Works in the newly formed Aznar Cabinet. The younger de la Cierva, at 15, built with two young friends what he believes was the first successful airplane ever to be constructed in Spain. In 1919 he built the second tri-motor in the world...