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...angel and a Virgin have gone to Detroit to live. Created by the chaste, cloistered brush of Fra Angelico in the 15th Century, they have come down the years unblemished, staying long in England and more lately in Manhattan. Their two panels form an "Annunciation" that is unquestionably the finest of Fra Angelico's work to be found in the U. S. today. Their former owner, Carl W. Hamilton, received a quarter of a million for them both from Edsel Ford, who, sailing for Europe just then, left them hanging in public for all Detroit...
...Spanish priests, after the conquest of the country in the sixteenth century, did all they could to stamp out the old religion and in a large measure succeeded. Down through the entire Yucatan the old cults have ceased to exist, but in the brush of Guatemala a few traces of them have survived the Eurobeen encroachments of the last four centuries...
...secured so far follows: Honorable J. Stitt Wilson, Professor Henry H. Tweedy, Dr. Robert E. Speer, Francis P. Miller, Powers Hapgood, Henry P. Van Duson, Dr. George R. Baker, S. Wirt Wiley, John W. Macdonald, Clifford Brown, Professor S. Ralph Harlow, Sidney Levett, Morgan Noyes, Kingsley Birge, John R. Brush, Allan K. Chalmers, and William D. Barnes...
...Mountain of the Mother of Salt, a sand-strewn salt-hill several hundred feet high twelve miles from Pueblo Grande, a cave 140 feet deep and 50 wide sparkled brilliantly under the explorers' flashlights. They found stone hammers with the wooden handles preserved, bits of sandals, creosote-brush torches, even thousands of corncobs remaining from meals eaten by the prehistoric salt-miners, and hundreds of quids of a gummy plant chewed between meals. The explorers hoped to find mummies in this cave, the saline air of which might have preserved them better than all the oils and ointments...
Lydecker Predicts Close Brush...