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Soloists Miss Comstock and Mr. Holmes Saudades do Brazil Milhand Stavonic Dances, Opus 46, Book 1 Nos 2 and 3 Dyorak
President Washington Luiz Pereira de Sousa. Last week hope loomed. A $100,000,000 loan to support Brazil's coffee hoard in Sao Paulo (principal coffee state) was announced to be in process of negotiation by J. Henry Schroder & Co. of London and their potent Manhattan correspondent Speyer...
...hunt and kill mountain lions. There still are official wolf-killers in France (TIME, April 7). And from South America returned last week Alexander Siemel, professional tiger hunter, with photographs of the adventures out of which he has made his living in the state of Matto Grosso, Brazil...
When he was 16, Alexander Siemel ran away from home in Riga, Latvia. When he was 21, he left Manhattan for Brazil. Thirteen years ago, aged 27, he went to live in the jungles at the headwaters of the Amazon to mine diamonds. That did not pay too well, so he took up tiger hunting...
Natural history books call them "jaguars" but "tiger" is the local name for the big mottled cats of Brazil, which grow nearly as big (300 Ibs.) and almost as strong as the biggest cats of Bengal. Brazilian cattle-raisers are glad when a tiger is killed. They prey on beeves. Few ranchers bother to hire tiger men and the state pays no bounties but any rancher will outfit a hunter with horses and food. The hunter's income then derives from the sale of skins ($40 each, f.o.b. the jungle) and live cubs ($400 each). Also there are plenty...