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...their Asiatic culture. But Larsen hopes to prove that before the light from Asia died out, some sparks of it passed down the coast by "cultural diffusion," and affected races far to the south. Thus, he may establish one of the few, perhaps the only, cultural contact of pre-Columbian days between the Old World...
...atomic destruction of the Third World War), Dr. Poole discovers the remnants of a decayed civilization on the west coast of North America. In once proud and loud California there vegetates a sallow, stupefied tribe of helots whose technology is not much superior to that of the pre-Columbian Indians and whose morality is rather worse...
...rented Atlanta hall Columbian Burke wildly harangued his audience of riffraff. Suddenly there was a crash of glass; a cloud of tear gas sent the listeners coughing and choking toward the exit. His lean face bright with sweat, Burke leaned through the broken window and shook his fist. He bawled: "Come back here, you Jew. We'll get you yet." To emergency police he shouted accusingly: "Some Communist...
Miguel Covarrubias is one of Mexico City's busiest men. Besides studying Chinese, he is working on an ambitious work on pre-Columbian art in the Western Hemisphere (to be finished by 1948), and teaching Indian arts at the National School of Anthropology. He is preparing an illustrated edition of Pearl Buck's translation from the Chinese, All Men Are Brothers; he has sketched out two gigantic mural maps of Mexico for the lobby of the big new Hotel del Prado. Yet he has time for some painting of his own, and time also...
...Columbian R. L. Whitman had brought along his wife and baby to watch the fun. On the baby's sleeve was pinned the thunderbolt symbol...