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...Mexico's "boy wonder" artist he came to New York in the '20s and helped Novelist Carl Van Vechten discover Harlem. In the '30s his book on Bali started a vogue that still persists. In his newest book, Mexico South: the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Knopf; $7.50), Artist-Writer Miguel Covarrubias has done it again. His gorgeous portfolio of prose, paintings and photographs, introducing to the U.S. the statuesque beauties of Tehuantepec, should do much to make the isthmus a new fad and a tourist goal...
Varsity harrier inexperience was revealed last Saturday when the Crimson runners went down to defeat in seventh place against the powerful squads of six other Ivy League colleges in the eighth running of the heptagonal races in Van Cortlandt Park, new York. The Middies from Annapolis won the nine way meet in spite of the talented running of Army's Frederick J. Knauss, who took first places...
...young attorney, light-complexioned Charlie cut a social swath. He wangled invitations to Hollywood benefits, and ran up a $2,000 bill for rented evening clothes. When the photographers exploded their flash bulbs, Charlie would sidle alongside the celebrities. His picture appeared in the papers with Singer Lina Romay, Van Johnson and Victor Mature...
Seven leading Varsity runners are making the trip along with Coach Jaakko Mikkola and Manager Brad Perkins. They spent last night at the New York Harvard Club and will proceed to Van Cortlandt at 9 o'clock this morning to dress for the race...
With the biggest effort of the season coming up today in the form of the Ivy League Heptagonals, the Crimson harriers left Cambridge yesterday afternoon for New York and ultimately Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx where the nine-college race will start at 11 o'clock...