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Professor Clark is a specialist on all phases of the civilization of India and has been editor of the Harvard Oriental Series since 1928. After receiving his Doctorate from Harvard in 1906, he went to the University of Chicago and was on the Faculty there until 1927 when he returned...
No great artist ever lived so long as Tiziano Vecelli. Born high in the Alps, 70 miles from Venice, he lived to be 99, died enormously rich and honored, a prince of the Holy Roman Empire, of the plague in 1576. Titian never starved in a garret. Sent to Venice...
High among the luxuries Britain can now enjoy are Mrs. Violet Van der Elst and her anti-capital punishment crusade. This irrepressible lady inherited from her Belgian husband a profitable shaving cream business (Shavex). Fiftyish, she heads three corporations, is a director of twelve. She claims that she sleeps on...
"Death Files East" is a thriller which improves as it progresses. Hollywood machinery creaks dismally and obviously in the beginning, but as passengers drop dead in the aisles of a transcontinental air liner and the race against time seems more and more hopeless, it is possible to arouse interest. The...
At school in the Caucasus he learned that no Mohammedan could enter the Russia's Imperial Naval Academy. His passionate desire to understand the difference between the Moslem and Christian worlds won him two doctorates, taught him to speak, in addition to his native Turkish, Russian, Persian, German, French...