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...founded in 1594 by Spanish Conquistadors and named after a brave chieftain of the fierce and never wholly conquered Araucanian Indians. The town is revered by Chileans because it is the birthplace of their George Washington, Bernardo O'Higgins.* Destroyed by a quake in 1853, it was rebuilt and until last week had a thriving population...
...about $15,000. Invasion by Japan has not interrupted Chinese cinema production. While Sable Cicada, which took two years to make, was in production at Shanghai, the studio was bombed twice. (Studio officials kept blueprints of the sets so that, in case of serious damage, they could be promptly rebuilt...
Charlie Babb got this idea for a flying freight car from the demands of Latin-American customers serving mines, lumber camps and industries in localities accessible only by air. Most of these use giant Curtiss Condors rebuilt as cargo ships. Now busy refitting six Condors to carry mahogany logs out of Yucatan's wilds, Babb hit on the idea of a unique Babb Special. It will have a wing span of 100 feet, twin motors and a cruising speed of 135 m.p.h. Its cargo space will be 35 feet long, 8½ feet wide, 9 feet deep. Through...
Publisher. Centre for experimental writing in the U. S. is New Directions. In a roomy rebuilt stable on his uncle's estate near Norfolk, Conn., James Laughlin IV runs New Directions between sessions at Harvard, where he has been in intermittent attendance for the last six years. Born in Pittsburgh 24 years ago, James Laughlin IV is a descendant of the founder of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.- a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), dark, personable young man with an earnest, attentive manner, a stubborn jaw and much practical business sense. He grew up on Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill...
...garden of the native gentry and rich Yankee interlopers. Sadly battered but not ruined were palmettos, oaks in famed White Point Gardens, known to millions of tourists. A third blow skirted Charleston proper, whisked off a dozen cottages on Sullivan's Island, where Fort Moultrie (four times rebuilt) has stood since 1776. Untouched by wind was neighboring Fort Sumter, where the first engagement of the Civil War was fought...