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...foreign firm would take over the dam job. but Chileans decided to go ahead under an engineer from, Brento, Italy, swart, indomitable Ernesto Boso. Ulen & Co. had done the first quarter of the work. On the Limari River 200 mi. north of Valparaiso. Signer Boso raised a wall of rock and concrete which slowly backed up enough water to submerge the historic colonial settlement of Recoleta, a town more than 250 years old. Last to disappear was the battered cross atop Recoleta's parish church...
...tossed the prints aside. In Pittsburgh the Sun-Telegraph printed the swimming pose. So did the New York Daily News and the Omaha Bee-News. Hearst's New York American delicately restored Kaletta's bathing suit before publication. At least one newspaper dared to print Kaletta naked on the rock. It was the Knoxville Journal...
...Lime Rock, Conn., Winslow Wilson painted two moppets called The Mora Children, heard his picture would have the place of honor at the annual art show. Opening day, Painter George Glenn Newell's cow picture Clear and Cold had the best place. Furious, Artist Wilson tore down the cow picture, hung up his own. Hour later the cow picture was back. Portraitist Wilson, with canvas, rushed away, opened a competing one-man one-picture show in an empty 18-room house, challenged Cow Painter Newell to a duel with canvas and brush, promised a $100,000 suit...
...Besides the rock of Jesus Christ there is another: Adolf Hitler. It remains to be seen which of the two is stronger. On the one sit the old women. On the other stands the young generation."? Youth Leader Hartmann-Lautenbacher...
...ROCK ? T. S. Eliot ? Harcourt, Brace ($1). A pageant play by U. S. expatriate No. 1, celebrating the story of the Church of England, in prose and verse...