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Based on the researches and arguments of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka. Bohemian-born curator of physical anthropology at the U. S. National Museum, the theory that North American Indians are of Asiatic origin has very nearly reached the status of a verdict by circumstantial evidence. Ethnological consensus is that the Mongol forbears of Amerindians crossed from Asia to Alaska some 15,000 years ago, crawled slowly down across Canada. From that time the story of their movement to the Eastern U. S. where white invaders found them has been fragmentary and obscure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Migration Map | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

...major, played by the Prague String Quartet is most musical and unmusical folk know Dvorak is permeated with the national-istor folk-music spirit. This quartet is also built on such melodies and rhythyms. It has a bewitching Andante that is obviously sentimental but also passionate. The bohemian performers of the work have played it with unabashed exaggeration of its sentimentality and accentuation of the "native" rhythyms. The admirers of Sibelius' Second Symphony may be interested in the Columbia recording by one Robert Kajanus and a Symphony Orchestra. Despite the relatively unknown performers the interpretation is quite satisfactory...

Author: By G. F. M., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 3/23/1934 | See Source »

Sally and Jack's: 16 Fayette St. $0.50 minimum charge. Excellent coffee, unexcelled onion soup, innumerable other delicacies to whet the epicurean appetite. Real McCoy bohemian atmosphere hours. No drinks, but if you bring your Open at 9.30 P. M.--stays so till all ingredients Jack will accommodate skillfully. Dress: unimportant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry-go-Round | 3/22/1934 | See Source »

...some 60 years ago, son of a pottery-making father. He journeyed to Corning, N. Y. and in 1903 founded his own glass works which he named Steuben after the county. He managed to attract attention by producing a highly colored glassware almost indistinguishable from the then secretly prepared Bohemian glass. When Corning Glass Works took over Steuben in 1918, Glassmaker Carder remained as head of the smaller division. Last week in Cincinnati he was presented with the Charles Fergus Binns medal for excellence in design by the American Ceramic Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Glass by Steuben | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

Sally and Jack's: 16 Fayette St. $0.50 minimum charge. Excellent coffee, unexcelled onion soup, innumerable other delicacies to whet the opicurean appetite. Real McCoy bohemian atmosphere hours. No drinks, but if you bring your Open at 9.30 P. M.--stays so till all ingredients Jack will accommodate skillfully. Dress: unimportant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry-go-Round | 3/3/1934 | See Source »

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