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Stretching back beyond the Century of Progress will be a replica of Fort Dearborn (1803), a Lama temple from Jehol imported by Vincent Bendix, a Mayan ruin reproduced after the approximately 700-year-old original in Yucatan by Tulane's Frans Blom. Climax of the backward time flight is "A Million Years Ago." On a small rounded mountain a caveman and his woman crouch low while the horrid monsters of King Kong and The Lost World stomp & roar, waggle their heads, lash their tails. New York's Messmore & Damon, U. S. monopolists on the construction of mechanized monsters...
...pheasant and quail. Its artificial lakes are planted with duck potato to lure wildfowl. It also has a golf course on which its owner occasionally breaks 100. Mr. Zemurray endowed a Department of Middle American Research at Tulane for $1,000,000, gave it the famed Gates collection of Mayan relics...
...Fair finances, announced that of the $10,000,000 land issue authorized, $6,555,000 had been sold without corporate guarantees. About $1,000,000 more have been sold with such guarantees. Already constructed are the Administration and Travel & Transportation Buildings and a replica of Fort Dearborn. The Mayan Temple and the General Motors building will probably be started this year...
...have risen again. But Managua, Nicaragua's capital, seems doomed. There is no money to rebuild the city. Last week the brewery and the power house were the only habitable buildings still standing. Hour by hour it became increasingly apparent that the city must be, like the ancient Mayan cities of Mexico, abandoned to the vulture, the lizard, the tapir, the rank jungle. Managua was a pretty city; in its 76 years as the capital it had flourished. Among the adobe shacks were handsome villas, gardened palaces, pretentious public buildings. Managua was chosen as the capital...
Back in New Orleans last week was Dr. Frans Blom of Tulane University, with deciphers of Mayan relics he found at Uxmal, deserted Yucatan city. The men were unusually uxurious. Unfaithful wives went unchastised, could get divorces and drink at pleasure. Men under 60 might not get drunk...