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...medicine man was Orley Burham, a mysterious Ecuadorian-born Scot who years ago had shacked up with a half-breed cook named Rosa Elvira Felix, and opened for business as curandero (quack) to the Indian villagers of Puellaro. Before long Rosa shared the secret of the strange seed which he got the Indians to plant among the corn. His brothers, Juan and Nelson, peddled the dried plant as cigarets in Guayaquil or sent it on to Panama...
...police, "until the North American soldiers came to Salinas." After that, sales doubled. At one time the integrated farm-to-market Burham system had produced around 900 smokes a day, most of them inhaled by U.S. troops in Ecuador. Then, about the time the gringo customers were ordered home, Orley Burham died. Rosa, whom he had married two years before his death, tried to carry...
...Anthony Trollope's Orley Farm.. "A will case with a notable cross-examination...
Seated for a year in the Library of Congress' chair of poetry (vacant since 1941) was Southern Agrarian Poet-Critic-Historian (Ode to the Confederate Dead) Allen John Orley Tate. His duties: the care and feeding of the poetry collection...
...16th century tapestries, made in Brussels about 1530 by Van Orley, and from that time until the World War the property of the Royal House of Saxony, are outstanding among the exhibits. The hangings depict "The Last Supper," and "The Ascension of Christ...