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Native Swiss Tschiffely (pronounced Shiffaily) had taught school in England, then served nine years in an Anglo-U. S. school in the Argentine. Young, fit, unwilling to be a schoolmaster all his life, he planned a glorified sabbatical. Friends thought him crazy; Buenos Aires' potent newspaper, La Nation, gave him good advice, took his picture when he was ready to start. With no companions but two stocky, middle-aged (15 and 16) Argentine Criollo horses, "thoroughbred in nothing except courage," Tschiffely headed north. Gato (the Cat), Mancha (the Stained One) and their master were two and a half years...
...midst of a crazy colony of foreigners whose erotic antics were hardly a help in furthering his own love affair. Caterina remained so businesslike, not to say calculating, that Mr. Belfry was not nearly so great a sinner as he would have liked to be. But he had enough Anglo-Saxon marrow to keep from going completely spineless, and finally took himself back to Cambridge and a well-ordered life...
...strong literary movement which will put the United States at the head of Anglo-Saxon literature is now rising," stated Harrison Smith, a member of the publishing house of William Faulkner...
...message was brief: unless the Metropolitan-Yickers engineers were released at once, unless the Soviet Government promised that they would never have to stand trial, Britain will place an embargo on all Russian goods, effective April 17, when the present Anglo-Russian trade agreement expires. Before Sir Esmond had finished, rotund Commissar Litvinov interrupted...
Large attendance (1,500) at the Pan-American Medical Congress in Dallas last week demonstrated clearly that Latin America no longer looks to Europe for medical education and that Anglo-Saxon America appreciates the fact. Practically every important U. S. and Canadian medical school had an attractive representative in Dallas. Great clinicians attended in person. Surgeon Charles Horace Mayo motored from Minnesota with Mrs. Mayo to the Congress. Surgeon George Washington Crile took a train from Cleveland...