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...past three weeks, J. Anton de Haas, Professor of International Relations at the Business School, has been in Bogota, Colombia, where he is aiding the local authorities in preparing plans for a college of business administration. To carry on this important duty, Professor de Haas was appointed Special Consultant of the Coordinator of Inter-American affairs...
...nation which has celebrated its 400th anniversary and which proudly calls Bogota, its leading city, "the Athens of America," inaugurated a new-old President last week. He was scholarly, able Dr. Alfonso López, President during 1934-38, now returning to office after the four-year interval decreed by a constitutional nonsuccession clause...
...Bogota, the capital, has more bookshops than restaurants. The deputies "read their poems aloud to one another, and talk about the quantum theory." Gunther sat down to his first dinner hoping to hear about the Fifth Column and the Panama Canal, "but no one would talk about anything except Marcel Proust...
Working in Bogota (Colombia) and Quito (Ecuador), Sculptor Davidson did two of his jobs at altitudes of more than 8,000 feet. Growled he: "That is very close to God for a sculptor. I have never been so close before...
Osteopath Charles T. Markert of Ridgefield Park, N. J. was a good friend of Mr. Walter Freiwald, an accountant in nearby Bogota. So when Mr. Freiwald's 22-year-old son Walter Jr. came home from Plattsburg military training camp last July with infected tonsils. Osteopath Markert, himself only 25, offered to spare the family the expense of a hospital and surgeon. He invited his boyhood friend and schoolmate, Osteopath Thomas O. Maxfield, 27, of Maplewood, to come to his office and remove Walter's tonsils...