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Ancient America was not as primitive as moderns may think. The discovery of a network of earthen ridges, engineered with geometric precision by pre-Columbian aborigines in South America, is persuading archaeologists to revise their theories...
...esthetic Nathan Cummings is happiest "doing a deal." At the moment, the 69-year-old chairman of Chicago's Consolidated Foods Corp. ought to be exuberant. His art collection, mostly impressionist and postimpressionist, embraces "100 very, very good paintings and 500 fun ones," and his display of pre-Columbian artifacts at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum is one of the world's finest. Corporately, Consolidated Foods last week agreed to acquire, for $3,400,000 in stock, Idaho Frozen Foods, Inc., a $5,000,000-a-year processor of frozen-potato products. This will be Consolidated...
...very secretive about its prurient interest. The entire campus, at least on the side away from the river, is based on deception. Going up Mass. Ave. all you can see on your left is a gigantic building in Chicago Roman, looking like something left over from the 1893 Columbian Exposition. But this is a front. Behind the building are acres of sleek, naked towers in Brasilia modern, cleverly obscured from the street, and dirty movies...
...Castro-Cid's art has thrived on unpredictable influences. While he lived in tropical Central America he painted in hot Fauve colors: "Nature made me get out of myself," he says, "it opened my pores." In Mexico City, he wandered into the anthropological museum. "Suddenly I had pre-Columbian memories that, of course, were impossible for me to have." A series of Fauve paintings of Quetzalcoatl, the brightly plumed serpent god, was the result...
Business Quadrupled. After a two-year stint with the Army in Panama ("I spent most of my free time digging up pre-Columbian art objects"), Peter arrived back in New York and started searching for a gold-plated piano stool, just as his father had 32 years before. Duchin and his twelve-piece band were soon booked for $3,000 a week in the St. Regis Hotel's Maisonette. Almost immediately, the nightclub's business quadrupled. Peter stayed on for three years, and the Maisonette was the only cheek-to-cheek dance spot in New York, besides...