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This is reason enough, thinks Author Morison, to believe that Columbus was not a Spaniard or a Portuguese (both na tions claim him as a native son). Salvador de Madariaga's recent ingenious attempt to prove that Columbus was an unconverted Jew is dismissed as "a significant pattern of hypotheses and innuendoes unsupported by anything so vulgar as fact." Professor Morison also smiles wanly at stories like Columbus and the egg.* Nor, says he, did Isabella pawn her jewels to outfit Columbus' ships. She only said she would if it was necessary; it wasn...
Hunched behind his lecturer's desk at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, the speaker introduced his subject as a product of the subconscious ("the earliest form of surrealism"), argued its artistic kinship to the creations of Authors Walt Whitman, Maeterlinck, James Joyce, Painters Renoir, Salvador Dali, Henri Rousseau ("the customs inspector who created things of beauty without knowing just how"). He was talking about jazz...
...Salvador ousted Baron de Muzi-Falconi, Italian charge d'affaires, who scuttled for Guatemala City and a reported preconference rendezvous with the remaining Axis agents in Central America...
Against the whole Axis: Australia, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Canada. Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Free France, Great Britain, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Poland, Panama, South Africa...
General Maximiliano Martinez, the President of El Salvador, turned out to be a theosophist. "He likes to put bottles of colored water out in the sun; once the sun's rays penetrate them, he thinks the water has therapeutic use. . . ." He has also trained himself to stare at the sun without blinking, claims it cures shortsightedness...