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...last week, at the peak of his career, handsome, laconic, 52-year-old José Félix Estigarribia, soldier, diplomat, statesman, boarded a plane with his wife in Asuncion for a holiday at his country home on Lake Ypacaray. Somewhere between Altos and San Bernardino, 65 miles east of the capital, the pilot ran into fog and crashed...
...been ousted from home by his family and jailed for stealing, was living meagrely on Federal relief, his pride had been wounded by a hospital doorman who refused to let him use the visitors' entrance. On airing his tribulations his stomach acid first dropped, then rose, reaching a peak when his anger was manifestly greatest. Bloody shreds and bile were also found in the specimens...
Meanwhile, Plymouth, Studebaker, Oldsmobile, Hudson, Willys and others showed the trade their new models. But at peak of the ballyhoo, Ward's soberly announced: "The automobile industry will do well to uncover in the model year ahead a volume of business as good as that in the model year just concluded." Translation: "Things don't look so hot." Ward's reasons: lower anticipated public buying because of lower profits, higher taxes, reduced auto exports, conscription, higher car prices (an exception: Nash, which lowered prices on expectations of larger output), general uncertainty...
Visitors who crowded the Beaux-Arts Gallery had to admit that Portugal, during its peak century and a half, had been almost as good at painting as it was at exploring. Connoisseurs found these primitives strongly influenced by the Flemish school founded about 1410 by famed Painter Hubert van Eyck. Some of the early Portuguese masters, like Nuno Gonçalves and Cristóvão de Figueiredo, were subtle portraitists who could have swapped paint brushes & pallettes with all but the best of the Flemish painters. But the Portuguese types por trayed, the thinner paint on the canvases...
Roped together, Boyer and Miss Cedarquist got to within 1,000 ft. of the peak. Miss Plank, climbing alone, was several hundred feet below them, when Anne Cedarquist suddenly slipped, plunged past Boyer and over a cliff. He seized the rope, burned his hands as he belayed it around an outcropping rock and stopped the fall. Boyer inched along a narrow ledge, looked over, saw that Miss Cedarquist was badly hurt but for the moment safe-half dangling, half propped on another ledge, above a long snow field and a deep crevasse. He could not pull her up without more...