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...early summer of 1925, Colonel Percy Fawcett, his son Jack and another English explorer named Raleigh Rimell jumped off into the jungles of Brazil's Matto Grosso, to look for the ruins of a lost civilization. Somewhere beyond the Rio das Mortes (River of Deaths) the party vanished, never to be heard from again...
Frank Mordecai, 29, of Raleigh, N.C., and Richard Pfeiffer, 25, of Los Angeles, both city boys, both ex-G.I.s, met in 1948 in Phoenix, Ariz., where they were students at the American Institute of Foreign Trade. Most of the other students planned to go into export-import trade, but Frank and Dick thought they might do better by producing some commodity. On a trip to Central America, they studied the possibilities of lumber in Honduras and cattle in El Salvador, finally decided on cotton in Nicaragua...
...Raleigh. N.C., North Carolina State over Colgate, 85-76, for a successful defense of the Dixie basketball tournament title...
Inhabited Garden. The New World smelled good from the beginning. Columbus noted that "there came so fair and sweet a smell of flowers or trees from the land, that it was the sweetest thing in the world." Almost a century later, Sir Walter Raleigh's colonists, aboard ship off the southeast coast, inhaled "so strong a smel, as if we had bene in the midst of some delicate garden abounding in all kinde of odoriferous flowers, by which we were assured, that the land could not be farre distant...
Double Take. In Raleigh, N.C., George Council was taken into custody on an old "breaking and entering" charge after Police Chief George A. Jackson of Dunn, N.C. spotted his picture in a Raleigh furniture store's "Employees' Month" advertisement...