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Animals & Aborigines. He wrote the first definitive book on Chilean colonial literature. Later, while serving as a provincial magistrate, Don J.T. got interested in botany and anthropology. He searched for rare plants, dug for bones of prehistoric animals, discovered a hitherto un-snown type of Megatherium (a kind of sloth). Meanwhile, he began pioneering in a field that had never been explored before: a monumental history of South American aborigines...
Museums as far off as Chicago welcomed the specimens sent them by Adolph Buch, and some even gave his name to hitherto uncatalogued varieties. But, after spending half his life in China, Father Buch saw the institutions he helped found taken over one by one by China's Communists. At last his own superiors realized that there was no point in his staying on longer. Father Buch packed up 150 of his choicest butterflies and started the long journey home...
From my Collected Poems--hitherto unpublished--I have selected what, after five years in Cambridge, I must say is my only honest response to your recent descriptions of the Radcliffe Girl. John M. Todd...
...novel, the first volume of a trilogy about World War II, Waugh broadens and deepens the scope of this experiment. Reading Men at Arms is like hearing a full keyboard used by a pianist who has hitherto confined himself to a single octave. Waugh is fully alive to the fact that no modern war is just a soldier's war. The drawing rooms, kitchens and clubs of the home front interest him just as much as the barracks and the tents. Furthermore, his interest in the battles is tightly linked with his interest in the cause for which they...
...Argentina last week the city of La Plata (pop. 200,000) was renamed Eva Perón. So will be all the streets and plazas throughout the country which hitherto had borne the name of onetime President Bartolomé Mitre. So will one school in every district, and all first-grade schoolrooms in Buenos Aires Province. Many moppets henceforth will attend classes in the Eva Perón room of Eva Perón school of Eva Perón city...