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...Friends. By this time the "Gann-Longworth feud" was one of the nation's prime concerns. When it became known that Dolly would make her first appearance as Second Lady of the Land at a dinner to be given by Chilean Ambassador Carlos Dávila, citizens who wanted to witness her hour of triumph bid $100 for an invitation to the party. Finally, at 8:00 p.m. on April 11, 1929, buxom (180 Ibs.) Dolly Gann took the arm of diminutive (100 Ibs.) Carlos Dávila and marched to the head of the table. Alice Roosevelt Longworth...
...vote him permission* to visit Chile later this month as the guest of his old friend and fellow general, President Carlos Ibáñez. During the seven-day trip, Perón expects to visit Santiago and Valparaiso, and to sign a treaty trading Argentine steers for Chilean copper...
...thousands to watch as the flames roared through five huge stacks of lumber and spread to a few nearby buildings. It was a spectacular New Year's show. But within an hour, cheered on by their wives and children behind the police cordons, the firemen (volunteers, like all Chilean bomberos) seemed to be getting the blaze under control, and the watching crowds began to drift away again. Then the superintendent of an adjoining government warehouse rushed up to shout a warning: there were 1,214 Ibs. of dynamite stored in the building. Before he had even finished gasping...
...Chilean students patted each other on the back yesterday after one of the most phenomenal hoaxes in recent history made newspapers around the world. Medical students sent out a bogus report that a Chilean woman had borne septuplets, sustaining the story for hours before a doctor finally repudiated their claims...
Animals & Aborigines. He wrote the first definitive book on Chilean colonial literature. Later, while serving as a provincial magistrate, Don J.T. got interested in botany and anthropology. He searched for rare plants, dug for bones of prehistoric animals, discovered a hitherto un-snown type of Megatherium (a kind of sloth). Meanwhile, he began pioneering in a field that had never been explored before: a monumental history of South American aborigines...