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Arriving in the Independency of San Bias,-the 200th country he has visited in the past 20 years, buck-toothed Robert LeRoy Ripley announced another believe-it-or-not: he himself is now "more widely traveled than Marco Polo, Magellan, and any other human being that ever lived." In an article for the London News-Chronicle, "1939-What Does It Hold," H. G. Wells suggested a possible solution of the world's present ills: ". . . The immediate fate of hundreds of millions of people hangs upon the unchecked impulses of a mere handful of men. You could pack the whole...
Miss Densmore's finds include whole Indian folk operas, entertainments requiring as long as nine hours to perform. Medicine men have confided to her secret therapeutic chants. A typical one is the San Bias Indians' cure for hangover...
...major assault upon Chinese Independence in general and the Chinese Generalissimo in particular. In South China waters, on the night after Independence Day, wide-eyed captains of coastal steamers raced for Canton (see map, p. 17) with the news that scores of Japanese naval vessels were massed off Bias Bay, famed hideout of Chinese pirates, only 20 miles from the British Crown colony of Hong Kong...
...coffee to his desk, occasionally led him outdoors for a walk and fresh air. His earliest broadcast was at 5 a. m., his latest at 11 p. m. After each talk he received a batch of letters. Their gist: in times of stress, listeners prefer conclusions and even bias to straight factual reporting...
Washington Avenue is a residential street that cuts due north and south through the low rolling hills of The Bronx. It begins north of the Harlem River where the Third Avenue Elevated slices off on the bias, and it ends, some 40 blocks beyond, at the campus of Fordham University. In its most populous stretch, between Claremont and Tremont, it is a cheerful, neighborly street, where on the summer evenings Jewish housewives lean from their windows or sit in chairs drawn out on the sidewalks, where kids on roller skates coast down the slight slope and where the tumult...