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This pronouncement represents the opening gambit i the grandiose scheme of the Peronistas to increase the population of Argentine in the next fifty years to 100,000,000 people. An amateur ethnologist of the Alfred Rosenberg variety, Peralta plays the same role of racial philosopher i the Peron cabinet as did Rosenberg in the Nazi regime. While sharing Rosenberg's views on Aryans and Jews, he nevertheless believes that Europe is through, that the Continent is "doomed never to return from its slump back into the Middle Ages." The German Gotter-dammerung is complete, now it is the Argentine which...
...Rivera give his collection a public airing. When art historians got busy on the collection they found that what they had long called Tarascan art, and knew almost nothing about, was actually a collection of several cultures in the states of Michoacan, Jalisco, Colima and Nayarit. A German-born ethnologist, Dr. Paul Kirchhoff, was called in to lend a hand. He found that Rivera had one of the greatest treasuries...
Helene Lazareff knows how to mix such ingredients into a palatable Franco-American dish. She started out as an ethnologist, lived with an African tribe two months and sold a series of articles about the adventure to L'Intransigeant, caught on with Paris-Soir, married its editor, Pierre Lazareff. As the editor of Marie-Claire (a sort of Ladies' Home Journal with a French accent), she ran its circulation to 1,250,-ooo copies a week before France fell. As wartime refugees in the U.S., the Lazareffs kept busy, he with the French section...
...Ethnologist Adney has always been a curious fellow. As artist-correspondent for Harper's Weekly he covered the Klondike Gold Rush of '97, proved that Robert Henderson and not George ("Siwash") Carmack made the original strike. He came home, wrote a best seller (The Klondike Stampede), lectured and had his picture in a parka plastered on American billboards...
Fisher started making a career out of the Orient right after leaving Yale, set out for the South Seas as a student ethnologist. For months he lived with Fatoia Tufele, king of a group of islands near Pago-Pago-and he still talks about the two beautiful damsels Fatoia provided to fan him as he sat dining on the hot porch of the king's palace. After that he went to Fiji, Tonga. British Samoa and on to China, where he worked three years on the China Press and the Shanghai Times-did special pieces for Reuters...