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Centuries passed. Not so many years ago the last of the Paka-Jakes returned to the Aymara people of Pacajes. He was fortyish and fat, but he had the authentic eagleface of his predecessors. He was illiterate, and he bore the earthy name of Damasco Maldonado. But he had the power to look into the future and the past and the thoughts of men; he cured sick llamas and women & children, got rid of bad ghosts and made things tough for his enemies. In the small Aymara pueblos of the Altiplano and among the Indies who worked the copper mines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Last of the Paka-Jakes | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

Director of the air-hostessing course is bright-eyed, fluttery, fortyish Margaret M. Preininger, head of L.A.C.C.'s Cultural Arts department, author of Japanese Flower Arrangement for Modern Homes. Miss Preininger's classroom is a mellow harmony of overstuffed chairs, heavy draperies, floor lamps, vases of flowers. She wangled the expenses from the Los Angeles Board of Education after giving each member a copy of John Cowper Powys' The Meaning of Culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Culture Takes Wings | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

Married. Florence Nightingale Graham Lewis (Cosmetiqueen "Elizabeth Arden"); and Prince Michael Evlanoff, late of the late "international set"; she for the second time; in Manhattan. She is in her 50s, he fortyish. A '41 refugee from France, for 20 years he had been an agent for Swedish-Russian Petroleum King Emanuel Nobel (nephew of Prize-Founder Alfred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 11, 1943 | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

Starlet Barrymore plays the daughter of Star Kay Francis. The plot requires Diana to don a middy blouse and pretend she is twelve in order to keep from her mother's suitor (John Boles) the fact that Mother Francis is fortyish. In the complicated course of this deception, Diana also fools a charming young man (Robert Cummings), who buys her roller skates and ice-cream sodas, tries to teach her to skate before his normal eyesight asserts itself and he realizes she is old enough to be his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The New Pictures | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...school teachers) draw regular inspiration from a modern counterpart of McGuffey whose lessons are said to reach 14,000,000 pupils: a magazine called The Instructor. Last week the 50-year-old Instructor got a new boss: Miss Helen Mildred Owen, daughter of the magazine's founder. Energetic, fortyish, long the magazine's managing editor, she took over last week as president of the firm, F. A. Owen Publishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schoolmarms' Gazette | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

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