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...young and free, without shadow or wrinkle, exciting electricity." A Frenchman born in Russia, schooled at Oxford, a diplomat in Italy and Spain, Author Morand (Open All Night, Black Magic) has exorcised in his latest and most delightful travel book the air demons of Latin America-those of the Inca and those of Pan American Airways. Some impressions of this traveled and tolerant man who thinks in the international terms of shillings, feet and quintals and who sees nothing that he does not somehow cherish and enjoy: The great fortress-like grain elevators of Buenos Aires, and the secluded ladies...
...Bahamas he preached to the planters' servants, learned from pirates the lore of the Spanish Main, conceived a scheme. The southern reaches of the Isthmus of Panama were known as Darien. From a peak in Darien Balboa first saw the Pacific. Soon the Spaniards were transporting their Inca loot across the Isthmus...
Meanwhile in La Paz something had to be done to take the citizens' mind off the war last week. The Government put on an exciting celebration of the 400th anniversary of the fall of the Inca Empire...
Amelia Earhart Putnam, Ladies' Night guest of honor at Manhattan's Explorers Club, prepared to present a blue Persian kitten as club mascot. William J. Morden, Asiatic big-game hunter and explorer, announced that the aviatrix. in accordance with ancient Inca custom, would anoint the cat's feet with oil to prevent its straying from home. Boomed a voice in the rear: ''Bill's wife says to put some oil on his feet...
...Twelve men will go with him from Ecuador across the Andes and down the Amazon to the Atlantic this winter. Each man will pay $5,000. That will cover all his expenses and equipment except clothing, cigarets and liquor. He will have a personal Indian valet; will get travel. Inca exploration, fishing, hunting, mountain-climbing, a four-month vacation. No women, not even Mrs. Dickey will go along. On the last Orinoco trip Dr. Dickey, 25 years a physician in the tropics, told her not to eat native raw vegetables unless she first washed them with permanganate of potash...