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...times, Hafiz shakes his green turban sadly at all the misunderstandings. Some of his converts have tried to help him out. Nervous Archivist Piet van Wijk, 41, made a glowing speech about the beauty of Islamic prayer. Suave, mustached Zeno de Lyon explained that Islam always taught the middle road. "With their system," said Zeno, "one can avoid both communism and capitalism...
...University of North Carolina, one of the top historians of the South, and a biographer of George Bernard Shaw. He mastered so many fields of learning that G.B.S. called him "the Grand Panjandrum." "He is the only man in the world," added Yale's late William Lyon Phelps, "who can talk professionally on equal terms with Einstein and . . . Shaw...
Died. Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 15th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 64, eldest brother of Britain's Queen Elizabeth; after long illness; in Glamis Castle (legendary site of Shakespeare's Macbeth'), Angus, Scotland...
...year researching ammoniated pastes, expect to gross $3,000,000 on Amm-i-Dent powder but to lose money on it-because of the high promotion and research costs-until 1951. By last week the field was getting crowded. Sterling Drug had brought out an ammoniated version of Dr. Lyon's powder; Rexall took full-page ads to announce its AmoRex (a paste). Tide Magazine counted up 29 companies that were either in the field or about to jump in. Soon, it appeared any paste or powder without the new ingredient would be tagged as oldfashioned...
...Mary Lyon '50 heads the all-Radcliffe committee which is sponsoring the conference...