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...sober young gentlewoman. She made a proper marriage to the Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus, and bore him a son who became Constantine the Great. After Constantine had accepted Christianity, the Empress Dowager Helena-by that time a doughty dame of 80 or so-undertook the arduous pilgrimage to Jerusalem. While there, she discovered in an abandoned cistern two baulks of timber which a great part of the Christian world has ever since accepted as the pieces of the True Cross of Christ...
...Compare," Dr. Salaman urged his colleagues, "the fate of the potato with that of the Jerusalem artichoke, a physiologically unsatisfactory food which reached France a decade later. After a short spell of popularity, it faded out of the picture without leaving a mark on the structure of society in France or anywhere else." The few gourmands who still fancy that pulpy, parsnippy root, which is no kin to the conelike epicurean artichoke (Cynara scolymus), claim that the Jerusalem artichoke tastes best after it has been frozen m the ground. Most of society will doubtless remain content to leave it there...
...Holy City of Jerusalem, where past and present walk hand in hand, Jews, Arabs and Christians last week were reading a strange new newspaper about Old Testament days. Written in modern journalistic style but faithful to ancient history, the monthly Jerusalem Chronicles bannered the news...
...JERUSALEM...
...Jerusalem Chronicles is the brain child of Polly Van Leer, wife of a Dutch-Jewish industrialist. After hef husband went to Israel to manufacture steel drums, Mrs. Van Leer decided to indulge an expensive but interesting hobby: retelling Old Testament history. She persuaded students and professors at Jerusalem's Hebrew University to do historical research, got Israeli journalists to act as rewrite men, signed up another ex-Netherlander, Yaakov Zutan, to edit the paper. By last week the six-month-old English edition had reached a circulation of 5,000, including a subscription from Rome's Vatican Library...