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...bootblacks shine your shoes with orange peel, everybody always carries an umbrella, people consume "fantastic quantities of Scotch" at $7 a bottle, and are so polite that they call North Americans misteres instead of gringos. President Dr. Eduardo Santos is a newspaperman; the Foreign Minister (Dr. Luis Lopez de Mesa) is a psychological novelist. The first Colombian Author Gunther met was an interviewer who asked: "Do you think that intellectual fermentations, as represented by the left-wing element of the first phase of the first New Deal, are on the whole more beneficial to democracy than otherwise?" The last Colombian...
Lloyd C. Ahlgren, Danbury, Conn.; George R. August, Whittier, Calif.; Ernest L. Baskin Jr., Sylvester, Ga.; Allan J. Caldwell, Burlington, Vt.; John F. Clark, Lynchburg, Va.; John J. Cooney Jr., Providence, R. I.; George C. Coquillard, South Bend, Ind.; Ray J. Diekemper, Los Angeles, Calif.; John C. Entz, Mesa, Ariz.; Edward H. Frost, University Heights, Ohio; Sargo Giss, Everett, Wash.; George E. Hamilton, River Forest, Ill.; Eugene S. Heckathorn, Indianapolis, Ind.; Herbert W. Hoskins Jr., Fairfield, Conn...
FRUIT OUT OF ROCK-Frances Gillmor-Duell, Sloan & Pearce ($2.50). In this gently tragic idyl of the Arizona irrigation country Amanda loves her valley orchards, Stephen loves his mesa-browsing goats, Amanda and Stephen love each other. Drought sears the pasture lands, threatens to dehydrate the romance: valley grasses can save the starving goats or protect the orchards from floods. Stephen with his goats conquers the trees in Amanda's heart. But a flash flood drowns Stephen, leaves unwed Amanda to raise figs, peaches and Stephen's posthumous baby. Author Gillmor's tale has some...
...Omaha he tried settling down at his old trade, photography. Then the Geological Survey sent him to explore and photograph the unknown Yellowstone. For the Survey, too, he photographed the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde. To study and photograph railroads he got himself sent around the world, crisscrossed Europe, northern Africa, southern Asia, almost circumnavigated Australia, almost froze to death on a winter journey from Vladivostok to Moscow. Quieter now, he paints massive murals of the western mountains when he isn't tossing off smaller oils...