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...Brookline, Mass. He studied civil engineering at M.I.T., but left after three years to become an instrument man for Quebec & Saguenay Railroad. Then he became a civil engineer and a contractor. In 1917 he enlisted in the U.S. Signal Corps as a private. He learned to fly under Bert Acosta, who was later to achieve fame as a transatlantic pilot. His first three landings were all dead stick, but he was notably successful once he got to France. Twice he was shot down. He was credited with two German planes, came out of the war with a captaincy, the D.S.C...
...face of learned opposition. Alfonso Caso, head of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History, rejected the theory that the ancient Toltec capital had already been rediscovered in the famed ruins (also of Toltec workmanship) at Teotihuacan. So did a young, Cambridge-educated archeologist named Jorge Acosta, who had taken up digging after touring Europe as a champion tennis player. The Cardenas government chipped in 3,000 pesos ($621). By the time Archeologist Acosta had disinterred his pyramid, the Mexican government had upped its grant by another 11,000 pesos...
Final identification of Case's and Acosta's diggings as the true city of Tula caused a sudden scrambling and realignment of the picture-puzzle of ancient Mexican history. It proved that the harsh, militaristic Aztecs .earned most of their civilized graces from the gifted Toltecs they had swallowed up 400 years before Cortez arrived. It proved that wandering Toltecs had inspired some of the most magnificent feats of Mayan architecture. Not only boosted were the reputations of Archeologists Caso and Acosta, but that of the bearded god Quetzalcoatl as well. For it proved that the people over...
Seeking Divorce. Diego Maria Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez de Valpuesta, 53, toad-shaped Mexican muralist otherwise known as Diego Rivera; and his third wife, Frida Kahlo Rivera, 29, svelte German-Mexican modernist painter, classed by Diego among the four or five best in the world, owner of the Coyoacán haven where Leon Trotsky spent two years in exile; in Mexico City. Explained Muralist Rivera, his pet monkey perched on his shoulder: "There is no change in the magnificent relations between us. We are doing it in order to improve Frida...
Safe from possible front line duty to attend the prisoner as his lawyer was Lieutenant the Marques del Merito, a grandee of Spain, whose wife is a daughter of the Tin-King Bolivian Minister to Paris. Socialite Captain Espinosa acted as prosecutor. As judges, a Colonel Frederico Acosta and four captains sat behind their swords at a long table: Defendant Dahl wore a new suit for the occasion, brought to him by his attorney's Bolivian wife. Testimony of the defense centred on the fact that Flyer Dahl believed that he was to be merely an instructor...