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...Year's Day, Torontonians went to the polls to decide the issue, elect a mayor and council. While only 32% bothered to vote, it was enough to block the two-year term, 73,638 to 46,791. Back in for his second term went moonfaced Mayor Hiram Emerson McCallum...
...occasion, the 72-year-old hero of the day, snow-thatched Hiram Bingham, ex-Senator from Connecticut (1924-33), ex-Yale professor and explorer, had come all the way from New Haven, Conn. He was greeted by an archbishop, a prefect, two senators, the mayor of Cuzco, and the U.S. ambassador. Together they celebrated the opening of a new highway up Andean cliffs to Machu Picchu (pronounced manchew peaktu), the ancient Inca capital discovered by Explorer Bingham in 1911. The roadway's name, proclaimed by Peru's President Luis Bustamante: the Hiram Bingham Highway (pronounced Eeram Bingam Igwye...
...inca civilization survived to go forth with manco, the first Inca, to Cuzco and the far-flung empire (Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador) that the Spaniards found. To this peak the last Incas fled to live out their days in cloudswept palaces that no white man saw till, in 1911, Hiram Bingham found them...
Town House (adapted from John Cheever's stories by Gertrude Tonkonogy; produced by Max Gordon) is one more comedy about the housing shortage-and on the whole, one too many. Despite George S. Kaufman's brisk direction and amusing performances by Mary Wickes and Hiram Sherman, it is much oftener forced than funny, and the more the playwrighting falters, the lower the playwright stoops...
...thereby the nation-when an ill-advised supporter rashly labeled the Democrats the party of "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion." It is political legend that the Republicans' Charles Evans Hughes lost California, and the nation, to Wilson by failing to shake the hand of California's potent Senator Hiram Johnson...