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Congratulations on your cover with the famous chess game (Marshall v. Tschigorin, Monte Carlo, 1902) in background...
Your Latin American department was off base in its comparison of the Portillo Hotel in Chile with our famous Sun Valley [TIME, Sept. 15]. You say the cost per person at Portillo Hotel is $9 a day with meals, while Idaho's Sun Valley Lodge costs $22 per day without meals, with an inference that this cost is the lowest rate. This is definitely not correct. The lowest rates at Sun Valley Lodge last winter for single occupancy in bachelors' quarters were $6.50 a day without bath. . . . The rates at the Portillo Hotel range upward from...
...Clement Moore (in his famous poem A Visit from St. Nicholas*), eight tiny reindeer were enough to herald the coming of St. Nick's toy-laden sleigh. In Argentina last week, it took 20 reindeer to herald the coming of Perón's Five-Year Plan to Tierra del Fuego. The government had imported them to provide food, clothing and transportation to the 3,513 inhabitants of the wintry archipelago at the tip of South America. On arrival from Sweden, the antlered immigrants were welcomed by Minister of Marine Rear Admiral Fidel Anadon. Said Buenos Aires...
Steppat took a plaster cast of the famous skull and laid down cork to the exact thickness called for at all 15 points. Then he connected the points with Plasticine. The result: an average face of Tepexpan Man. Said Steppat: "If the finished reconstruction doesn't look like the Tepexpan Man, it looks like his first cousin...
...Musical Small-Coal Man," gave the capital's best concerts. He hawked coal by day in the streets, once a week saw his loft "filled with rank and fashion; every distinguished foreigner who came to London was treated to one of Thomas Britton's concerts . . . scholars, famous musicians and dilettanti were glad to sit with him and enjoy the taste and learning displayed in his talk." One Thursday night, a kidding ventriloquist told Britton to "prepare to meet his God." Britton, a strong believer in spirits, died two days later...