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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been thought before Lathrap's discovery that the Montana Indians were a link to the highly civilized Inca cultures discovered during the Spanish Conquest. Lathrop's evidence, however, indicates that the area was culturally related to the regions in the Amazon and on the shores of the Caribbean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Discovers Ancient Civilization | 1/9/1957 | See Source »

Eddy Duchin Story, in Technicolor, continuous from 1:30 p.m., at the U.T. Also, The Amazon Trader...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND EVENTS | 10/27/1956 | See Source »

Miss Cheesecake. Weldy had met Harrison twice before. The first time was two months ago, when Harrison talked vaguely of hiring him for an Amazon expedition but also assiduously pumped him about his ex-wife Pilar Palette and Actor Wayne. Then last week he met Harrison in a Ciudad Trujillo hotel casino, raised such a row about the Confidential story that bouncers escorted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reader Response | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...Reluctantly, the tabloids did a slow fade-out on the exotic tropical scene, leaving readers to chew on some memorable quotes. Said Actor Wayne: " Weldy is a nice fellow, but I deplore the fact that he is such a poor shot." Said Weldy: "I'm going up the Amazon and get lost." Said Harrison: " I have had enough of the goddamned jungle for the rest of my life." Said Miss Courtney: "I wasn't in love with either of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reader Response | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, 80, explorer, scientist, physician, millionaire socialite (left $5,000,000 in trust by his first wife, the former Eleanor Elkins Widener) and sometime cannibal fighter, who mapped 500,000 sq. mi. of Amazon and Orinoco River territory; at his summer home in Newport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 6, 1956 | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

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