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More through circumstance than anything else, Mr. Sheean early acquired a reputation as a dare-devil newshawk, in the best Floyd Gibbons manner. He was in Morocco during the uprisings of the 1920's, and managed several times to slip through the frontier between the French and the native troops. He had escapades in Spain which gave him an insight into the Rivera revolution. While a correspondent in Paris, he observed Poincare at close range; the only mental conception he retained was one of contempt. He was in Geneva when the ill-fated Protocol was introduced; his cynicism regarding...
Sixty-five onetime Saar residents, members of the French Foreign Legion who were brought all the way from Morocco to vote in the Saar plebiscite (TIME. Jan. 21). have not been seen since by their French officers. Came news last week that these 65 deserters each received a Nazi bonus of 5,000 marks ($200), have enlisted in the Fatherland's Reichswehr...
...Since then Chan has carried on in The Black Camel, Charlie Chan's Change, Charlie Chan's Greatest Case, Charlie Chan's Courage, Charlie Chan in London. No longer bothered to invent new titles, Fox will presently release Charlie Chan in Buenos Aires, Charlie Chan in Morocco. Derived from the Saturday Evening Post stories by the late Earl Derr Diggers, the cinema Chan has exhausted the original supply. Now, though Author Diggers' widow receives a royalty on each, Chan's cases and his mottoes are invented for him by Fox scenarists. Almost anyone...
...column on the quarter bills to keep a record of the amount of glass for which the student must pay. The Book is an important part of the inauguration ceremony as presented under the regimes of the colonial presidents and President Conant and was rebound last year in heavy morocco leather by the library bindery which is hidden away in the same part of the building. This book has the drawing for the seal which we know today, but the word "Veritas" did not appear on the metal seal until 1885 because the sealcutters' art was before then not sufficiently...
Characteristically elaborate were Reinhardt's addenda to the play: incidental music written by Victor de Sabata; Moorish dancers to accompany the Prince of Morocco and appear in a ballet between the acts; a crowd of townsfolk to demonstrate against Shylock...