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...writer, who returned home last week and got into the headlines with this piquant chitchat: The Rajah: "Where did you come from?" Mr. Patterson: "From America." The Rajah: "Is that further away than Singapore?" Mr. Patterson: "Much further." The Rajah, producing a newspaper photograph of President Coolidge and Queen Marie of Rumania: "I know. I have a picture of your Rajah. Is this his favorite wife?" Mr. Patterson: "Oh no, our great Rajah has only one wife." The Rajah: "How many people are there in your country?" Mr. Patterson: "110,000,000." The Rajah: "I myself have only...
...held professorships at the University of Arkansas, Denison, Queen's University, Canada, and has been at Harvard since 1924. Professor Mather is an associate geologist of the United States Geological Survey. In 1919-20 he was Petrological Geologist to Bolivia and Argentina...
...woman of firm portliness, resolute and cheerful, talked to reporters in Philadelphia last week, who went away and dubbed her "The German Apron Queen...
...Queen Marie of Rumania telephoned in some agitation last week to her daughter Queen Marie of Jugoslavia. King Ferdinand of Rumania, phoned Queen Marie to Queen Marie, had suffered a relapse in his long, chronic illness (TIME, Nov. 29 et seq.). Soon a telephone operator who overheard the royal conversation started a rumor which grew and gathered, gravity until correspondents in Berlin asserted "on the highest authority" that King Ferdinand was dead...
Perhaps, admitted the diggers, the tomb had been a temporary one for King Zoser, used pending Im-Hotep's completion of the nearby Step Pyramid, under the wall of which it lay. Or perhaps it was Zoser's queen's tomb. The sarcophagus, still hidden, would tell. Meantime the diggers marveled at a maze of deep tunnels, at remains of blue tiling, at a dozen alabaster wine jars...