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...most highly prized item is the Morgan loan, a thirteenth century bestiary, the "Description of Animals" of Ibn Bakhtishu, the earliest known manuscript of the Mongol period of Persian art. The book was copied for the Emperor Ghazan Khan, of the Genghis Khan dynasty, and contains 94 colored drawings of animal subjects...
Harvard's first men to finish last year were Henry Marcy, fifth, and Hayden Channing, ninth. Following them came Roswell Brayton '39 in tenth, Bill Wright '38 in eleventh, Charles Worth '37 in twelfth, and John Erhard '38, this year's captain, in thirteenth...
...five councilmanic candidates remained in the running. Maurice Sugar, U. A. W.'s attorney, placed seventh with 88,000. Richard Frankensteen, U. A. W.,'s assistant president and hero of the "Battle of the Overpass" at the Ford plant, was ninth with 83,000. Thirteenth was Tracy Doll, president of U. A. W.'s Hudson local, followed in 14th place by Walter Reuther, head of the big, tough West Side local. And Ray Thomas, president of the Chrysler local, squeezed into 17th place. One of John L. Lewis' ambitions had not actually been realized...
Those who stay around until July 10 will have the pleasure of seeing in the Stadium the Thirteenth International track meet between the combined forces of Harvard and Yale and Oxford and Cambridge...
...dark. Things look bad for Nell O'Neill (Madge Evans) when John Wales (Henry Daniell) is stabbed at the seance, but clear up when, at the next psychic session, Dick Crosby (Thomas Beck) uses lampblack to prove that naughty Dr. Mason (Charles Trowbridge) was not holding hands. The Thirteenth Chair still saves a septuagenarian shiver for the moment when Madame La Grange reveals the murder knife stuck in the ceiling, but as dramaturgy it is more convincingly dead than any of Dr. Mason's victims...