Word: tierra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jimmy was glad to see the Childses, delighted at the idea of being put into a book. In spare moments from his sheepherding, he spun them the yarn of his adventures. When Jimmy came to Patagonia, in 1892, it had been an even wilder land. In Tierra del Fuego, where he went first as a herder, the Indians were being hunted and killed like wild animals. Naked Indian women were kept tethered outside the herders' tents until their pregnancy made them a nuisance. There was little law but the gauchos' own. Jimmy liked the life...
...five months. Of all the Generals, Colonels and ex-Ambassadors who have seized the presidential chair this year, only one got his name on the ballot: Spanish-Irish Colonel Marmaduke Grove who was until election week a political exile on Robinson Crusoe's lobster-infested Mos-a-Tierra Island...
...Grove and his principal aides, the Government announced, were carried by a destroyer to Chile's Mas-a-Tierra ("Robinson Crusoe") Island and there imprisoned. In 1930 Col. Grove, after making a hash of the revolution his friends attempted then, was exiled to this same island, escaped...
Years ago Rockwell Kent used to sign his splendid decorative drawings Hogarth Jr?this despite the fact that his figures are as unworldly as he knows how to make them, that his dislike of crowds makes him live in remote Ausable Forks, N. Y. and take solitary cruises to Tierra del Fuego and Greenland. A far better right to Hogarth's mantle has Reginald Marsh, who held an exhibition of his latest paintings, water colors and prints at New York's Rehn Galleries last week...
Author & Artist. Rockwell Kent, 48, onetime well-digger, sailor, farmer, teacher, lobsterman, carpenter, architect, boatbuilder, has a passion for the sea, a passion for painting. Not afraid of solitude, he has lived and sailed much alone (from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego). To finance a trip to Alaska he once incorporated himself for $10,000, paid a 10% dividend. Last summer he painted a 6,400 sq. ft. canvas ceiling for the Dennis, Mass. "Cinema" (TIME, July 28). Last month he won his suit against Delaware & Hud son R. R. for resumption of passenger service between Ausable Forks (where...