Word: mesas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Born in Pennsylvania, he never went to college, served for nine years before the War as publicity counsel for Bell Telephone Co. During the War he headed Liberty Loan drives. After it, he became an explorer, discovered dinosaur tracks in Arizona and a primitive Indian village. ''Lost Mesa," was made a chief of the Navaho tribe with a certificate written in human blood to prove it. Six years ago he took as his second wife Paulina Stearns, daughter of a wealthy Ludington, Mich, lumber family. In 1933 he went to southwestern Oregon for the first time...
...Petrified Forest. What happens to Leslie Howard and a gang of desperadoes in the Black Mesa...
Starting off with the first situation and carrying the second to an odd conclusion, Playwright Sherwood has magnificently presented one tumultuous afternoon and evening in a roadside service station in the far West. Apparently just as much at home in the Black Mesa Bar-B-Q as he was in Hannibal's tent (The Road to Rome) or post-War Austria (Reunion in Vienna), Playwright Sherwood has given a humorous and dramatic three-dimensional panorama of the hamburg and gas-peddling Maples, their young, ex-fullback helper, the rich and insufferable Chisholms who drive up in their Duesenberg limousine...
Educational as well as spectacular was the costume of large, active Anna Wilmarth Thompson Ickes who appeared as a Zuni Indian matron. Long a student of Southwestern Indians and author of a book about them called Mesa Land, the Republican wife of the Secretary of the Interior knew exactly what to wear...
Near Aguila, Ariz, one rainy night last week a bus scrunched along a soggy road, bearing 35 Mormon Church members back to their homes. Led by their Bishop Morris R. Perry, they had made a four-day pilgrimage to a Mormon temple at Mesa. Suddenly with a wrenching screech of jammed brakes the bus crashed through a detour sign which the driver had seen too late. Slithering off the road the bus turned over. When help arrived five Mormon women and a girl-baby were dead, all but two of the rest were injured. Said Bishop Perry: "There were only...