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...picture Wichita Bill would have slashed up if he could: a sentimental landscape of a sunrise over Boulogne, France. As Wichita Bill's brush left it, it was not so bad, but after the picture was sold in 1921 for $3,500, it was badly retouched, finally found its way into the collection of William Randolph Hearst...
...next summer he was back. At once he was arrested as a spy by Nazi-conscious Panama police. After eight days in a foul jail, he was freed and darted south into the brush. Three weeks later he emerged from the jungle at the Colombian border. Having done the impossible, he presented his notes and films to the Highway officers, returned to his classroom. As reward he asked nothing, and got it. Last week plans were going ahead for preliminary surveys of the Panama-Colombia link...
...Authorities differ on the spelling and significance of Peralta's nickname. Spelled Mate Cocido, it means brewed yerba mate, a native tea, on which the bandit lived during a prison term. Spelled Mate Cosido, it refers to a wound Peralta got in a brush with police, means, in slang, Sutured Conk...
Died. George de Forest Brush, 84, oldtime U.S. portraitist, of 19th-Century academic traditions, past whose pretty, clear-colored mother-&-child portraits, prominently hung in older museums, the U.S. museum-strolling public has for 50 years beaten a reverent, admiring path; in Hanover...
Since the U.S. Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, NJ. is hard by the Lakewood Country Club, many a Lakehurst officer has been able to brush up on his golf. Lakehurst last week challenged nearby Fort Dix to an Army-Navy golf match, named as their entrants Lt. Commanders George Watson, R. F. Tylor. Lieut. M. F. D. Flaherty...