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...Glueck's finds indicate that the busy inhabitants of Solomon's port, besides carrying on sea trade, ship-building and fishing, smelted copper and manufactured such copper implements as spearheads, fishhooks, nails. Some of the flues in the ancient smelter are still intact, and the north wind causes a strong draft through them. Dr. Glueck believes the necessity for such a natural draft was the reason this site was chosen for smelting...
...That copper-colored aborigine was pretty emphatic about being called Chief Wolf Tooth when he was introduced to Mayor LaGuardia as "Mr. Hawks." I overheard it because I was sitting just behind the two, where, incidentally, I shamelessly eavesdropped their entire conversation. Wolf Tooth explained that he had graduated from Carlisle in 1879 and that he had visited Mayor LaGuardia's city "long time ago." He still remembered the State of Liberty and he fought in his tribe's last battle against the white men. After hearing all this in perfectly good English, I was somewhat puzzled...
Just as exterior streamlining has been made up of one part bunk to one part science, the interior "improvements" in these trains will cater largely to U. S. reverence for looks & luxury. Besides scientific lighting, air conditioning, electric signal systems, the Century and Broadway will have leather, cork, copper decorations, flossy bars, photomurals of skyscrapers, pink lights to transform dining cars into "night clubs." Passengers will call the porter not with bells, but with chimes...
...travelogue of the artist's experiences. The Arizona mining town where Rubenstein found the varied materials for his work is called Jerome and is located in the northeastern section of the state. A small place of only 6000 inhabitants, this Black Hills village thrives on the mining of copper ore, in which task almost the whole male population is engaged...
...wood carving. That this tariff effectually kept foreign sculpture out of England, even for exhibition purposes, was something it took Parliament six years to discover and, last January, to amend. First to take advantage of the amendment was small, smart, grey-haired Peggy Guggenheim, daughter of the late copper Tycoon Benjamin Guggenheim and founder of a new London gallery cutely called "Guggenheim Jeune." For Guggenheim Jeune Director Peggy this month planned a knock-out exhibition of sculpture by Abstractionists Brancusi, Arp, Duchamp-Villon, Calder, Laurens. Pevsner. But she had reckoned without J. B. Manson. By the terms of the amended...