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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tradition and rites, the Lacandons are of continuing interest to professional ethnologists, as well as to a continuing stream of travelers. ... In 1940, Corporal Gordon Gibler and I lived awhile with them to investigate some murders perpetrated on the group of half-breeds who seasonally enter their area to collect chicle, from which chewing gum is manufactured...
More For Spyros. For his explosive energy, Twentieth Century pays Spyros $254,000 a year. From National Theaters Corp., which has been a Twentieth Century subsidiary for a year, Charlie collects $315,000. From Skouras Theaters the three brothers collect $52,000 each. Their salaries go into a common pot. From it Spyros and Charlie take 37½% , George...
Modern Aesop. George Ade was born a year after the Civil War; his major period of writing stopped in 1914, when a doctor reminded him that he would be unable to collect royalties in a cemetery. There were plenty of royalties-from his succession of Broadway hits (The College Widow, The Sultan of Sulu), and from his famed Fables in Slang. In the Fables, wit-coated little tales told in capital letters, an American generation found a peculiar charm, for George Ade reworked the goody-goody stories of his time through a screen of Big City sophistication, making them...
Killers, Saints, Miracle Men. In 1938, Ben Botkin joined the Federal Writers' Project of the late WPA to direct the collecting of U.S. folklore, saw the Project disbanded before he could publish much of his material. For five years Botkin continued to collect and edit the folklore included in this whopping, hodgepodge anthology, to which folk-loving Carl Sand burg (Abraham Lincoln: The War Years) has written the folksy foreword...
Sudden Salvage. In Wilton, Conn., news-hungry residents complained about overzealous wastepaper salvagers who reg ularly collect bundles of Sunday papers dropped by delivery trucks on Saturday night...