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...from Montezuma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

Georgia is a nice state. It has mountains and plains and forests, and even a gold mine or two. It also has a lot of nice people. Some of them live in Macon County. That is a nice county. It has . . . a couple of towns called Montezuma and Oglethorpe, but it does not have Tuskegee Institute [April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...Marina, as the Spaniards christened her, emerges as a tawny tidbit just turned 18 and just about Cortés' first Mexican conquest. Intelligent and fearless, she soon comes to share his council as well as his bed. On the long, fierce road to the golden halls of Montezuma, Cortés relies on her as his eyes, ears and translating tongue. Faithful Marina also bears Cortés a son. Yet Novelist Baron never allows her to blot out the challenging figure of the great conquistador. His Cortés is a hypnotic leader who can inspire lukewarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Jan. 24, 1955 | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...boulder-strewn lava plain outside Mexico City, 10,000 workmen, artists and engineers labored last week to finish Mexico's biggest single construction job since the building of the Halls of Montezuma (circa 1500). For the 401-year-old University of Mexico, North America's oldest university,* they were creating a handsome, ultramodern University City, spectacularly expressive of the new, post-revolutionary Mexico. Scheduled for occupancy early next year, the dazzling, $50 million University City is the most up-to-date college campus anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: World's Fanciest Campus | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...Marines sing From the Halls of Montezuma, the Navy sings Anchor's Aweigh, the Air Force sings Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder, but the nearest thing to an Army theme song is the old horse-artillery number, The Caissons Go Rolling Along-and few soldiers have seen a caisson since World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Song of Its Own | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

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