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...Meters, 3.30 o'clock. Italian Entries: Ulrico Dt. Blas, Tullio Gonnelli, Nino Larocchi. American '36; John McManus, B. C.; Larry Scanlon...
...into book illustration, which, forming a part of the page, are called vignettes. The process, developed in England, spread to Paris, where in the '30's a formidable number of illustrated books were produced. The interest was shared between new editions of famous literature and contemporary writings. Thus "Gil Blas," "Don Quixote," "Paul and Virginia," are exhibited with Goethe's "Werther," Nodier's fairy tale "Tresor des Feves," Reybaud's political satire "Jerome Paturot," all with blocks cut after designs by Johannot, and Gigoux and others...
Last September Capt. Juan Blas Hernandez, a bowlegged old bushwhacker who fought Tyrant Machado for years and had started a lively little campaign against the Grau Government, suddenly appeared in Havana, publicly embracing not only President Grau but also swart "Emperor" Fulgencio Batista, the onetime Sergeant who led the Army's revolt against its officers, and to the world's surprise has maintained control of the Army ever since...
...discussion in your issue of Jan. 23 on pp. 28 & 30 of "The Bank of England God" has greatly aroused my interest, as I am familiar to some small degree with the regions inhabited by the San Blas and Choco Indians of Panama. While I would by no means take exception to the opinions of such eminent authorities as the scientists of the Smithsonian Institution referred to in your article, there are one or two points in the final paragraph of the account which invite comment...
Along the Panama coast he left his impress. There still is a Caledonia Bay and a Puerto Escocés. The San Blas Indians occasionally breed a blond child. When the San Blas and Choco medicine men want to carve a really imposing fetish on a medicine cane, they give long-nosed William Paterson a waistcoat, shirt, necktie, collar, buttons, striped trousers, paint his coat black or green...