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...inveighed at from Christian pulpits. Last week there was scant cause for Christian alarm in San Francisco's convention. Few Occidental Buddhists went to it. Not present were converts Dwight Goddard of Union Village, Gesford, Va., or Philosophy Professor James Bissett Pratt of Williams College. Nor was Vincent Bendix, famed aviation and automotive man, more than casually interested, despite the fact that in 1929 he gave Swedish Explorer Sven Hedin $135,000 to purchase two Buddhist temples, one to be rebuilt in Stockholm, the other in Chicago for next year's World's Fair...
Plump, baldish Ralph Leo Richards, half-brother of chubby Vincent Richards, tennis professional, escaped with three cellmates from Eastview Penitentiary, N. Y. where he was serving a one-year term for assaulting a policeman...
Snug as bugs in the matted jungle of Brazil's Matto Grosso, a state twice as big as Texas with a population little more than that of Houston, lives an Indian tribe called the Yawalapiti. Last summer the Yawalapiti had a colossal surprise, concerning which Vincent M. Petrullo of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, anthropologist of last year's Matto Grosso Expedition (TIME, Dec. 21 et ante) last week issued a monograph...
...Vincent Petrullo and Eldridge Reeves Fenimore Johnson, son of the founder of Victor Talking Machine Co., were in the airplane. They saw the amazing red men below snatch their spears and bows & arrows, and form into fighting squads of six. The Yawalapiti were going to battle the huge creature circling down upon them. The women ran into the jungle, ripping off their uluri (genital charms) as sacrifice to the demon. But the village site was too small for the plane to land. Anthropologist Petrullo & Victrola-Hein Johnson dropped a sack full of good-will offerings upon the village, flew back...
...flown over their villages were not evil. They would return. Each morning the Yawalapiti women prepared manioc cakes and beverage and the entire tribe turned their faces to the south praying that the return would be soon. It occurred after seven weeks of prayer. From a jungle stream paddled Vincent Petrullo, his guides shouting that they wanted welcome. The Yawalapiti chief headman, wearing a diadem of jaguar hide, greeted him skeptically. When explanations were over, every one laughed loudly about the Great Gods. The women formed in a line, with arms linked and the palms of hands held against each...