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...Colonia's soil is the loamy terra roxa (red earth) that Brazilians prize most. After two years' full operation, the farms, for which the Government gives seeds and advice, burgeon with fat crops of rice, 15-ft. corn, sugar cane thick as a truck driver's wrist, beans planted among the corn to keep the ground rich and productive. Says Sayão: "They don't mind planting vegetables, but are horrified at the idea of eating them. 'Makes you sick,' they say." But they are catching on, and on better-balanced diets already...
...when he was 23, Lachaise met the girl who inspired (though she did not model for) his massive idealizations of womanhood. To follow Isabel to the U.S., Lachaise gave up his sombrero, his cape, his wide trousers caught at the ankle, flowing black tie, cane, long hair, and his studies at Paris' Beaux Arts school. He carved belt buckles, buttons and saddles for Civil War monuments in Boston, later apprenticed himself as a stone cutter to Manhattan Sculptor Paul Manship. After seven years' labor, Lachaise was a slick enough portraitist and decorative sculptor to live...
...make you snort like a horse." (Mosquitoes? "Well, stranger . . . it is a fact that they are rather enormous. [But] if they are large, Arkansaw is large, her varments are large, her rivers are large. A small mosquito would be of no more use in Arkansaw than preaching in a cane-brake...
Died. Mac Harris, 92, bearded, cane-twirling ex-slave, idol of famed Beale Street during the South's Reconstruction, onetime "king of gamblers" along the Mississippi from St. Louis to New Orleans ; in a shabby flat in Memphis...
...grandpa, as big and rugged as Ed is small and quiet. But it was Mike's son, Eugene F. Moran, 75, chairman of the board and Ed's uncle, who chugged the company into big business. An elegant dresser who shocked tugboaters by carrying a cane, he boasted that his tugs could tow anything anywhere. Said he: "Those big ones of ours could pull the Statue of Liberty down to the South Pole and back...