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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Others ran what amounted to an airfreight service with private planes. Hoodlums entered the act, were even able to plunder government-willed collections. Artist Diego Rivera willed his fine collection to Mexico. It was pilfered before the government ever got it. Shortly after Anthropologist-Author Miguel Covarrubias died, some of the best pieces in his top-notch collection (also willed to Mexico) showed up first in a Texas gallery, then in a Manhattan gallery, which sold them to private collectors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Treasure Traffic | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

Wisdom (NBC, 2-2:30 p.m.). Anthropologist Margaret Mead talks about the whopping changes that World War II brought to New Guinea and how it all ties in with U.S. mores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Feb. 23, 1959 | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...posts-Defense, Foreign Affairs or Interior -rather than his present Ministry of Information. But the widespread (and possibly exaggerated) suspicion of his tactics and his intentions makes many fear the prospect that as head of the Interior he would control the police. When newsmen queried him on his prospects, Anthropologist Soustelle gloomily quipped: "Perhaps I will go back to Mexico and my Aztecs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The General's Pick | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...year-old Russian-born anthropologist is being tried for perjury. He is accused of falsely denying to a federal grand jury on Feb. 20, 1957, that he knew Jack Soble, a confessed Soviet spy. However, Zborowski later admitted knowing Soble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zborowski On Trial for Lying | 11/7/1958 | See Source »

Life & Love. Although he is neither a trained musician nor an anthropologist, Lomax has arrived at some general conclusions. For example, people in remote (often Northern) parts of continental European countries tend to "take life and love easy"; they sing in choral groups with open throats, often using frankly sexual words and lyrics. As he moved to less remote areas, Lomax found increasing "frustration and melancholy," accompanied by a nasal, constricted-throat, high-pitched style of singing that comes originally from the Orient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Just Folk | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

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