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LOST TRAILS, LOST CITIES (332 pp.)-Colonel P. H. Fawcett-Funk & Wag-nails...
...green wave of Brazil's Mato Grosso Plateau closed for the last time over the head of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the famed British explorer. What happened to him then? One guess is as good as another, and the Sunday supplements have made them all. Was he killed by a wild animal? No evidence of that. Is he still held captive in the deep interior by Indians who believe him a god? So one old Indian woman declared a score of years ago. Or was he really murdered by the Kalapalos chieftain who confessed the crime (TIME, April...
Last week, after seven expeditions and almost three decades of search for the famous adventurer and his party, the trail was cold, but the subject of Fawcett was not. Conceding at last that all hope of the colonel's return was gone, the Fawcett family has released for publication the memoir of his seven expeditions through the South American rain forest. It ranks as one of the major narratives in modern exploration...
...defense argued that Fawcett had provoked attack by making obscene remarks and gestures to an old woman passing in front of the Coach Grille on Boylston St. According to the testimony of the boys, Scalese approached Fawcett and said, "That could be your mother or mine." The fight followed...
Both Bachelder and Fawcett had previously testified that they remembered no old lady or any other pedestrian passing near them as they walked towards the Square. Both said they had noted a group of about 12 boys standing in front of the Coach Grille, and had been challenged, "Where do you think you're going?" Immediately after this, Bachelder said he had felt the first blow fall on the right side of his head...