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...This past year he has again added noteworthy items to the scroll of his work, viz: Six trips across the U. S., including the above record; opening two mail routes to South America (Miami-Paramaribo, Miami-Buenos Aires); air explorations of Indian ruins in New Mexico and Arizona, and Mayan ruins in Yucatan; stunt flying with the Navy's high hat squadron at the Cleveland air races; displaying how easy it is to learn to glide; flying altogether about 30,000 miles in all sorts of machines, in all sorts of weather-always safely, surely, incomparably...
...William Berryman Scott, patriarchal Princeton paleontologist, described a dinner party held in Ecuador some 1,600 years ago. A group of Indians sat watery-mouthed while mastodon steaks were sizzling over their fire. Beside the fire were laid their fine Mayan dishes. As the banquet was about to start, woe, in the form of a clay bank, descended upon the party, preserved the bones and pottery for posterity. Uncovered in 1927 by German archeologists, the find redated the reign of the mastodon. Until lately the mastodon was generally thought to have died about 20,000 years...
Library to ferret among reports sent to Rome by 16th Century Spanish priests on Mayan culture. Dawes-backed, Professor Clark hopes to find references to the "lost continent" of Atlantis in the documents...
Lindberghs Over Yucatan. Soaring over Campeche, Yucatan, Quintana Roo (Mexico), British Honduras, and Guatemala, Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh and a Fairchild camera last week observed the remains of three Mayan cities and traces of a fourth. Dr. Alfred Vincent Kidder of the Carnegie Institution, who accompanied them, declared gratefully that they had accomplished more exploratory work in 25 hours of flying than a ground party could have done in five years of plodding...
...trust fund for her benefit. Meanwhile her husband was flying her with President & Mrs. Juan Terry Trippe of Pan-American Airways back from Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana (TIME, Sept. 30) to the U. S., by way of Central America. Later this month, the Lindberghs intend to explore by air Mayan ruins among Yucatan forests. In the office of Colonel Lindbergh's publisher* last week was the manuscript of his new book, We Fly, in which he sets down his attitude toward public idolization, the future of flying, military aviation...