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...fancy. If perchance, his own dreams grow dull and old there are always those of others who have captured visions and made literature. It is to one of those glorious dreams of beauty and splendor that The Vagabond turns this noon when he attends Professor Lowes' lecture on "Kubla Khan and Charitable" in New Fogg Other lectures...
...Kubla Khan and Christabel", Professor Lowes, New Fogg Large Lecture Hall...
...Andrée Viollis was last week the first journalist to enter Afghanistan's freshly captured capital Kabul (TIME, Oct. 21). Her paper Le Petit Parisien had staked her to an airplane. With quick, appraising, bright French eyes she took the measure of the Conqueror, potent Nadir Khan, told how he rode through the streets on a prancing charger preceded by musicians, how his swart warriors danced and sang, how the people hailed him with shouts of "Liberator! Liberator!" Nadir had liberated Kabul from "The Usurper," rapacious Bandit-King Habibullah. But as the professed champion of rightful King Amanullah...
...last week for gleaming-eyed, white-tusked King Habibullah, the savage onetime bandit who last winter wrested Afghanistan's throne from weak, well-meaning little King Amanullah (TIME, Jan. 28). All through the summer, Usurper Habibullah has been harassed by the lean, ruthless, white-chinned Nadir Khan, ill-famed for boiling his captured enemies in oil (TIME, Sept. 2). Last week Nadir converged three armies of overwhelming might upon Kabul. Prudent Habibullah fled in an airplane to escape being French-fried. Without resistance the city fell. Since victorious Nadir was once a general in the service of ousted King...
...first secretary of Afghanistan's Paris Legation was asked by U. S. correspondents what he thought were the intentions of Nadir. "To you gentlemen," he replied, "I may best characterize the Nadir Khan a sort of George Washington. There is the interesting possibility, that like your great countryman, he may prefer to experiment with some sort of a republic...