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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took him as a prisoner on a campaign of conquest through the southern jungles. There, in 1525, the conqueror had the emperor hanged. For more than 400 years, scholars have wondered what became of Cuauhtemoc's body. Last week, in the muddy village of Ixcateopan, 120 miles southwest of Mexico City, the riddle was finally solved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Senor y Rey | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...week, 21-year-old Pancho Gonzales faced Ted Schroeder for the last time. With less difficulty than he had in the finals of the National Singles at Forest Hills, Amateur Champion Gonzales dusted off his old enemy (6-3, 9-11, 8-6, 6-4) to win the Pacific Southwest Championship. Then he hopped a plane for Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Goodbye & Hello | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Albright bombards 54,000 customers all over the Southwest with as many as 250 leaflets a year, plus an annual 100-page catalogue and two supplements. He has taken a firm hold on the business of supplying Texas schools and institutions. He also buys up publishers' remainders at rock-bottom prices, dolls them up in new dustjackets, sometimes changes the titles a bit, and keeps them moving across the counters and through the mails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Corn Salesman | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Slowly the diggers are piecing together a picture of what America was like in its earliest history. But the more they dig, the more complex the picture seems to look. Once the experts thought that the Basketmakers of the Southwest were the first U.S. inhabitants. But apparently the country was already full of crude, prowling citizens soon after the glaciers melted (about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

After Cutting's death in a 1935 plane crash, the New Mexican changed hands and politics several times, is now owned by Robert M. MtKinney, cousin of Railroader Robert R. Young (TIME, Feb. 3, 1947), and Southwest Newspapers, Inc. which own three other small papers. But it is run by 42-year-old Editor Harrison, a hardfisted, soft-hearted political reporter who has been a hair shirt for New Mexican politicos for 17 years, political columnist of the New Mexican for five and editor for 17 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The First 100 Years | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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