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When the Prince of Wales was in Buenos Aires last month, it was known he wanted to take a speed boat ride with famed Kaye Don in Miss England II (TIME, March 30). Although the Argentine Navy offered to sweep clear a course on the Parana River, the prospect aroused anxiety in British and Argentine sporting publics. Miss England II was the boat in which the late Sir Henry Segrave was killed last year when she hit a floating branch and sank on Lake Windermere (TIME, June 23). Wales got no ride. Last week, with H. R. H. safely attending...
...repaired, shipped to Buenos Aires to race as a feature of the British Empire Trade Exposition. In order that Miss England II should not hit another log and go down with the Prince of Wales aboard, the Argentine Navy offered to sweep the three-mile course on the Parana River free of all driftwood...
...tale of a fire in the pampas grass. "Rosaura" is a cruelly sensitive story of a young girl's hopeless love and suicide, so feverish that it quivers between bright beauty and absurdity. The last of the seven, "The Return of Anaconda," carries a boa constrictor down the Parana River in a flood, has the jungle talking, raises the gooseflesh. All the stories are delicately translated by Anita Brenner, gain spice in the weird black-and-whites of Mordecai Gorelik...
...Iraty, Parana, Brazil, Jose Pacifico, 122, married Maria Piedade...
...member of the Carnegie Institution expedition to Yucatan and Guatemala; in 1923 in charge of excavations at Ketchipann, N. M., in the joint interests of the Museum of the American Indian and Cambridge University; in 1925 in charge of the joint excavations in the delta of the Parana River, South America. Since 1923 he has filled the position of research associate in the Museum of the American Indian, New York City...