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...What would Haitians think of these faces?" wondered strollers through the Ainslie Galleries, Manhattan, last week. At them leered, from canvas, black faces-the faces of Negro Frenchmen, Negro Britishers, Negro Jews. The faces-explained a leaflet signed by famed Explorer William Beebe-were part of an artistic haul made by three painters who accompanied him to Haiti on the tenth expedition of the New York Zoological Society. "Never, I believe," wrote Explorer Beebe. "has any one country been so vividly presented in crayon, water color...
Captain Goos tried to haul up the American Girl, too, but gasoline ran over her hot engine, took fire. The flames shot into a towering pyramid, higher than the rescuing ship. An oil tanker avoids flames. The American Girl was abandoned. Said Miss Elder: "It was like watching an old friend drown...
...James Peak and thread a pass 11,660 ft. high, his tracks had to climb 30 miles up 4% grades, describing in 23 miles curves totaling 28 full circles. It was-and is-the highest standard-gauge railroad in the world, far above timberline. It takes four locomotives to haul a 22-car train over the top. And the first winter he operated the line, David Moffat discovered that blizzards and snow avalanches would make it totally impassable for six months every year. He was trying to raise money for a tunnel when...
Prints of some of Audubon's bird engravings now command many thousands of dollars. Audubon murals would have been a priceless haul for a natural history or art museum; may yet be if art salvagers have sufficient ingenuity...
...Denver auto show: "The next thing on the Denver Post's free amusement program, ladies and gentlemen,* will be a thrilling leap for death by 75 world-famous Autoarabs, the tumbling Gas Anns, the Leaping Lenas of motordom's circus world." Army tanks were obtained to haul many battered motor hulks to an abyss on Castle Mountain. Throngs of Denverites scrambled thither to see the hurtling-into-space, the drop, the crash, the wreckage. A block party on Champa Street (outside the Post offices), with 21 bombs fired, bands playing, revelry-to signalize the opening of a tunnel...