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...suburbs. Poesy aside, the Mines of Golconda have yielded diamonds in only trifling quantity and were exhausted long ago. What fooled early English travelers was the fact that Golconda was long one of India's chief centres of diamond cutting, strongly fortified to protect these precious stones: "The Riches of Golconda...
...yields double or treble harvests; in some places there are seven harvests in 15 months. Could Mussolini starve Egypt by damming Lake Tana, diverting the waters of the Blue Nile from Egypt? No, says Ludwig; only 3% of Egypt's water comes from Lake Tana, none of its precious silt. From immemorial time the Nile's floods have been Egypt's prime worry. Too little water means famine; too much, catastrophe. Since Egypt has been under England's benevolent paw, the Nile has been studied, shackled as never before. British hydrographical research costs...
...Dauphin in Katharine Cornell's Saint Joan. The purple sits well on him as he impersonates one of the vainest, cruelest, weakest monarchs the English ever had to tolerate. Sensitive at all times, Actor Evans rises to his greatest dramatic heights when Richard returns from Ireland to "this precious stone set in the silver sea . . . this England" to make the melancholy discovery that he has all but lost his sceptre...
...that one can only assume that these items are common fare in the Harvard Houses, and that their dieticians would be delighted to pump Freddie and his classmates full of haliver oil, on the slightest provocation. We heartily endorse this attitude, since by the natural laws of evolution the "precious ducklings" of Harvard (an expression aptly coined by the Crimson) will in ten years have progressed to a state where vitamin D alone can help them...
Close on the pattering heels of advices from Hollywood that Freddie Bartholomew, precious duckling of the silver screen, may apply for admission to the college came ugly rumors yesterday that Shirley Temple, his constant rhumba companion at California hot-spots, may enter Radcliffe, an institution on Garden street...