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This incident took place in 1949 at rock-strewn Vicos Hacienda, 10,000 feet up in the Andes northeast of Lima. But since then Vicos has changed. Last week Dr. Allan Holmberg, the scientist who wanted to save the child's life, reported on the change in a lecture at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, in Stanford, Calif...
...name: Cornell University of Ithaca, N.Y. The faraway university proposed (with help from the Carnegie Corporation of New York) to experiment on the most effective ways for bringing modern know-how to primitive peoples. What the job required, in effect, was an isolated human laboratory; Cornell's Professor Holmberg, who once tramped the Andes on a field mission, had picked Vicos...
...Lynnfield Center; John H. Gerstner Jr., Upper Darby, Pa.; Lewis L. Gilbert, Auburndale; John G. Gill, Grafton; Burton L. Goddard, Carlisle; Robert McQ. Grant, New York; Bernard C. Graves, Wakefield; William H. Gysan, Belmont; Perry E. Haines, West Medway; Wesley N. Haines, Boston; Glenn P. Holman, Neponset; Leonard W. Holmberg, Woonscocket, R. I.; Robert LaV. Jacobs, Belmont; Paul G. Kuntz, Philadelphia, Pa.; Albert A. Martin, Middleton; John A. Martin, Rochester; Kermit Schoonover, Clintondale, N. Y.; Oscar J. F. Seitz, Medfield; Clement W. Welsh, South Groveland; and Robert T. Weston, Lexington...
...spring of 1914, the year the Alaska Railroad was begun. Frank Adams, John Holmberg and Tom Jensen loaded up with salt pork, coffee and flour at Fort Yukon and went prospecting up the Yukon River. They took Sweet Marie along for company. Folks around Fort Yukon learned that they had made a fairly good strike. Then word came in that the prospectors had fallen to quarreling. Next thing heard was that Tom Jensen had killed Adams, Holmberg and the Schmidt woman and run off with a poke worth some...
What the Government could do with "Blueberry Tom," the dog musher, if it was indeed he, remained a problem. The body of neither Frank Adams nor John Holmberg has ever been found to provide a corpus delicti for a murder charge. Some Indians buried Sweet Marie Schmidt in a sandy grave, but a flood came and washed her body away long...