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...very spirit of the times--the seventies in the continental capitals, Rome, Paris, Naples, and the rest. From life on the picturesque Riviera of the last Nineteenth Centry with its lazy and peaceful atmosphere we are wafted to the sordid dampness and depression of artists' studios on the Rive Gauche, with their moments of artificial happiness at the cost of bitter enmities and disappointments...
...most spectacular part of this extensive project is the work on the rive. This has caused the presence of the diver, the spectators, and half of the men, with their paraphernalia. For they are busy building a coffer dam out in the river, which is hold the water off men working on the shore...
...competence to criticize he took care to detail that he has spent but 30 months of the past 31 years outside of South America. For 25 years he was physician & surgeon to mines, railways, sugar and rubber estates in various countries. During vacations he explored. For the past rive years exploring has been his profession. Not strangely, explorers and exploring vex him most. He considers "the aims of most expeditions, particularly those to South America, falsely pretentious and insincere. . . . It is impossible that the preposterous sums raised for some of these junkets can be expended licitly and I know that...
...Pascin was born in Bulgaria 45 years ago, of a Spanish-Jewish father and a Serbo-Italian mother. He was educated in Vienna and Berlin, traveled everywhere, stayed in New York long enough to become a U. S. citizen, spent most of his life in Paris. He hated the rive gauche, and his studio was not on Montparnasse but on Montmartre, right next to the Moulin Rouge, among the music halls, zinc bars, hack stands and sporting houses whose employes and habitues were his models and friends. A few initiates knew that his last name was not Pascin but Pincas...
...income has not been wholly from oil royalties but rather from royalties from inventions, and my inventions have not been restricted solely to the oil industry, but also include different mechanical and electrical devices that are manufactured by the General Electric and Westinghouse Corporations, and I also de rive an income from banking, real estate, department stores, automobile business, manufacturing and many other enterprises. I have not sunk a lot of money in the South west Air Fast Express or in anything else, and for your information I could dispose of my inter est in the Southwest Air Fast Express...