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...have escaped from the rolls of an old jungle thriller: a gigantic U.S. Negro, wanted for murder, who has found a dignified life in a country where his color is no handicap; an old white adventurer who has gone native but still clings to his dream of El Dorado; the big-company man of purpose; the noble young savage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adventure on the Amazon | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...Golden State (by Samuel Spewack; produced by Bella Spewack) is a hack comedy that sinks even that bounciest and most cork-brained of comediennes, Josephine Hull. Playwright Spewack sets out to kid California's well-known ambition to be El Dorado when, it grows up. Actress Hull plays a hopeful landlady who, through a Spanish ancestor, lays property claims to all of Beverly Hills. Ernest Truex plays a hopeful prospector who thinks he discovers gold in Miss Hull's back yard and makes frenzied forty-niners of the other roomers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays In Manhattan, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...Spanish conquistadores had always believed that somewhere in northeastern Peru lay the land of the Indian king, El Dorado, a man so fabulously rich that he daily powdered himself from head to foot with gold dust. Legend also held that the land of El Dorado lay close to Angayza and that the mountain, which rises where the spurs of the eastern Andes reach the Amazonian jungle, was solid gold. In 1541, Gonzalo Pizarro, brother of Peru's conqueror, led several thousand men on a fruitless hunt for El Dorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treasure Hunt | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

During 14 years of military duty in northeastern Peru, Juan Heysen again & again heard the legends of El Dorado and Angayza. Finally, he decided that he had to see the mountain for himself. The government agreed to help-with supplies and Air Ministry aerial photographs. In June the expedition was ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treasure Hunt | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...contain gold. Last week a government communique announced: "Lieut. Colonel Heysen's report and valuable ore samples will be carefully studied and analyzed. The results will be used as a basis for further operations." Some Peruvians wondered if the "further operations" might not yet lead to El Dorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treasure Hunt | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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