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Published by Famous Features Syndicate, Inc., New York, NY 1947
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Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the March 1947 issue of "The Pan American: Magazine of the Americas" (Vol. 7 No. 10) edited by Hal F. Lee and published by Farris A. Flint and Famous Features Syndicate, Inc. out of New York City. A digest-sized magazine measuring 5-1/2" by 8" and containing 64 pages includ…ing front and rear covers. Special Survey and Digest: Argentina and Uruguay. Containing articles and photographs, contents include: For Hemisphere Solidarity by Tomas Berreta ("This is a report [text] of the speech of President Tomas Berreta of Uruguay. It was delivered at the banquet given him last month by the Pan American Society of the United States, Inc. at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, New York"); South of the Border Walkup by Lee Rogers ("A Bit of Mexico Conveyed in a New York Apartment"); Federating the Americas by Mauricio Hochschild ("A Plan for Mutual Benefit in the Western Hemisphere"); Snakes for Science by Robert J. Buck ("They Save Lives with Snakes" - on Vital Brazil and the Institute [Instituto] Serumtherapico [later Institute Butantan]); A Change of Face by Walter Sandt ("Latin America Goes for the New Trackless Trolley"); Trade with Argentina by James S. Carson ("U.S. Can Become Her Chief Supplier and Best Customer"); Art in Uruguay by James Hanson ("Pigmy Among Nations - It Is a Giant in Art"); Special Picture Section: Argentina and Uruguay (with 15 photos); Argentina's Air Challenge by William R. Mizelle ("FAMA [Flota Aerea Mercante Argentine] Offers Competition to Foreign Lines"); New Horizon by Alden Mann ("Uruguay Welcomes Trained Technicians and Farmers"); The Long Shadow of Luis Morquio by Michael Scully ("He Had a Vision - for Building a Race"); Affairs of Honor by Robert J. Alexander (which begins, "Dueling is still popular in Uruguay. It's even legal! But it's much more complex than in the days of the Three Musketeers"); River Plate Reading by Willis Knapp Jones (on gaucho literature, past and present, from Argentina and Uruguay). Covers show light corner wear.
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Published by Famous Features Syndicate, Inc., New York, NY 1947
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Periodical
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Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the January 1947 issue of "The Pan American: Magazine of the Americas" (Vol. 7 No. 8) edited by Hal F. Lee and published by Farris A. Flint and Famous Features Syndicate, Inc. out of New York City. A digest-sized magazine measuring 5-3/8" by 8-1/8" and containing 64 pages i…ncluding front and rear covers. Special Survey and Digest: Colombia and Venezuela. Containing articles and photographs, contents include: Colombia Host to Hemisphere Press (on the Fourth Inter-American Press Congress which convened in Bogota during the last week of November); Liberty Must Fight by Alberto Lleras Camargo ("Without Freedom of the Press There Is No Government of the People"); The Dominican Challenge by W. A. Reeve ("A Tiny Republic [Dominican Republic] Marks 15 Years of Progress"); Hemisphere Builders Part VIII by Beatrice Green Taines and Jean Beck (on the International Ocean Telegraph Company, the Mexican Telegraph Company, All America Cables, and Radio, Inc.); Sanborn Hermanos by Russell Day Stephens II (on Frank and Walter Sanborn and the Sanborns chain of stores); Colombia and Communism by Hal F. Lee ("How Far Has the Communist Movement Penetrated in Colombia?"); Politics in Venezuela by G. MacEoin ("A Discussion of the Various Political Parties Within the Country"); Special Picture Section: Venezuela and Colombia (with 15 photos); Profits in Colombia by Hal F. Lee ("Local Business Makes More Than Foreign Firms"); Flying High by Elsbeth E. Fruedenthal ("Venezuela Expands Her Airways"); Roundtrip - Colombia (with full-page map of Venezuela and Colombia: "Following the Fourth Inter-American Press Congress at Bogota, Hal Lee, editor of 'The Pan American,' was chosen as the North American delegate to make a two weeks' tour of Colombia, together with one representative from each of the other American republics. This article gives an account of his impressions"); Venezuela Looks Ahead by Theresa W. Sposa ("New Projects in all Fields Are Being Planned for the Country"). Covers lightly age-browned; covers show light corner wear.
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Published by Famous Features Syndicate, Inc., New York, NY 1947
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Periodical
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Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the February 1947 issue of "The Pan American: Magazine of the Americas" (Vol. 7 No. 9) edited by Hal F. Lee and published by Farris A. Flint and Famous Features Syndicate, Inc. out of New York City. A digest-sized magazine measuring 5-3/8" by 8" and containing 64 pages incl…uding front and rear covers. Special Survey and Digest: Brazil. Containing articles and photographs, contents include: Communism in Latin America ("Communist Party Strongest in Brazil"); Jewels of Happiness by Edna H. Evans ("Colombia's Emeralds Have a Colorful History"); Casado's Tannin Empire by Stanley Ross ("It Revolutionized the Leather-Tanning Industry"; the article begins, "When several thousand Paraguayan tannin workers and quebracho foresters struck recently in a demonstration against their government, the tannin empire of Carlos Casado, Ltd., was paralyzed for the first time since it helped revolutionize the leather-tanning industry by erecting the world's first tannin factory 52 years ago"); Boomlandia in Brazil by Michael Scully ("Sao Paulo - the City that Shouldn't Have Been"); It's Catching! by Jay Wainwright ("You Can't 'Get Away from it All' in Brazil - There's the Radio Commercial"); Special Picture Section: Brazil (with 15 photos); For Future Friendship by Arnold Tschudy (on problems related to the Brazilian-American friendship); Brazil Builds for Beauty by J. Howard Campbell (on architect Alfredo Ernesto Becker); The Great Frontier by Ashley Simms (on the Amazon: "A Challenge for Those Who Believe the Unknown Should Become Known"); Backwards in Brazil by Leigh Merrill ("The Adventures of Several U.S. Air Force Members on Their First Trip to Brazil"); Notes from the Amazon by Wytold Malcuzynski ("Religious and Primitive Strains Blend to Make Brazil's Music Fascinating"); The Mystery of Charles Ponzi by Judith Wren ("From Riches to Rags" which begins, "As I turned into a side street off Rio's fashionable Avenida Copacabana, I came to a tired old boarding house. The entrance was practically blocked by a creaking rocker, filled by a man wearing a frazzled, red silk pajama-top instead of a shirt. 'Are you Charles Ponzi?' I asked. 'I was,' said the old man, smiling. 'I'm not much of anything now.'"); Truth's Storyteller by Francis J. Donahue (on Gilbert Freyre). Light crease to lower corner area of front cover; covers show light corner wear.
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Published by Famous Features Syndicate, Inc., New York, NY 1946
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- Periodical
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Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the November 1946 issue of "The Pan American: Magazine of the Americas" (Vol. 7 No. 6) edited by Hal F. Lee and published by Farris A. Flint and Famous Features Syndicate, Inc. out of New York City. A digest-sized magazine measuring 5-1/2" by 8-1/8" and containing 80 pages…including front and rear covers. Special Survey and Digest: Cuba and the Caribbean Islands. Containing articles and photographs, contents include: photo "Coloratura Lily Pons receives congratulations from General [Dwight D.] Eisenhower after her performance at Mexico City's Opera Nacional"; New Ships to the South by John L. Kent ("New Super-Luxury Liners Are Planned for the Latin American Trade"); text of the address of Sr. Enrique V. Corominas (Argentine Minister Plenipotentiary to the United Nations) given at a recent luncheon meeting of the Argentine-American Chamber of Commerce entitled "Americas' Symphony"; Lost City by Harold T. Wilkins ("Legend of a Fabulous Empire?" which begins, "Fabulous tales of a strange white race living in lost cities, amidst the crumbling ruins of once splendid palaces and temples, still cling to the unexplored highland wilderness of Brazil's Matto [Mato] Grosso jungles"); APRA [Party] and the U.S. by Stanley Ross ("Peru's Apristas Have Changed in Their Policy Toward the U.S."); For Better Understanding by Doris Cashmore ("The [American] Friends Service Committee Really Works for International Understanding"); The Silversmith of Silvia [Columbia] by Edna H. Evans (on Senora Mercedes Vidal viuda de Vidal); [Lake] Titicaca by Robert J. Buck; A Builder in Mexico by Frank B. Lenz (on Jose A. Cuevas - "The Man Who Builds Floating Skyscrapers"); "Those Crazy Americans" by Georgie Castagnet (on the tourist trade in Havana, Cuba: "They Come for a Good Time, and Don't Care What Others Think"); Butter from Babassu by Gail Jarvis ("A Tree of Plenty"); Special Picture Section "The Caribbean" (with 16 photos); Destinies Decided by Jane Eastin (on the Caribbean Commission - "A UN On a Miniature Basis"); Jigaboo Jargon by Elizabeth Searle Lamb ("English May Be the Official Language, But-!" - "For in the West Indian island of Trinidad the 'jigaboo,' or native, uses a strange patois derived from bits of Spanish, French, imported African phrases supplemented by Carib and recent additions from English"); Hemisphere Builders: Part VI - E. [Elisha] Atkins Co. by Beatrice Green Taines (developer of the Cuban sugar industry); Puerto Rico's Balance Sheet by Hal F. Lee (Part One of Two; "Hundreds of Millions Have Been Spent on Puerto Rico. What Is the Result?"); La Habana [Havana, Cuba] by Tana de Gamez ("The Paris of the New World"). Covers lightly age-browned; small scuff to each of upper and lower outer spine edges.
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Published by Famous Features Syndicate, Inc., New York, NY 1946
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- First Edition
- Periodical
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Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the October 1946 issue of "The Pan American: Magazine of the Americas" (Vol. 7 No. 5) edited by Hal F. Lee and published by Farris A. Flint and Famous Features Syndicate, Inc. out of New York City. A digest-sized magazine measuring 5-1/2" by 8-1/8" and containing 80 pages i…ncluding front and rear covers. Special Survey and Digest: Mexico. Containing articles and photographs, contents include: Sumner Welles Recipient of 1946 Americas Award by Alicia Brower (with two photos: "Welles Honored at Inter-American Press Association Dinner"; with "Highlights of Sumner Welles' Significant Address"); Puerto Rico Inaugurates New Governor by Hal F. Lee ("Jesus T. Pinero Is First Native-born Governor of Island"); Hemisphere Builders Part V: International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (IT&T) by Beatrice Green Taines; Canada Eyes Her Northland by James Montagnes ("Given Impetus by the War, Civilization Is Coming to the Northwest Territories"); Bovine Air Express by Daniel H. Ecker ("Columbia's Agricultural Stock Becomes Airborne" - "The cattle show no ill-effects from their air journey"); Overseas Press Club Celebrates Liberator's Birthday by Lee Rogers ("Birthday of Simon Bolivar Hailed At Long Island Fete"); Going South in '47? by John C. Burt ("All Tourist Facilities Are Being Developed To Meet The Anticipated Boom"); Ornaments Can Be Useful by Michael Scully (on Adela Formoso de Obregon Santacilia - "The Hemisphere's Busiest Woman"); photospread of Mexico (with 13 photos); Construction Fever in Mexico by A. A. George; Valley of the Mexictin by Bob Corrigan ("No Other Place Shows History So Casually"); Movies Move South by Jay M. Goldberg ("Mexican Film Industry Expands"); Mexico's Horatio Alger by William A. Baker ("Fortin [de las Flores] - Pride of Senor [Antonio] Ruiz Galindo"); Mending Mexico's Magic Carpet by Jean B. De Camp ("The Republic Sets About to Revitalize its Railways System"); La China Poblana by Russell Day Stephens II (on the festive costume); War, Health and Water by A. Edward Stuntz ("Mexico's Fight for Water is an Engineering Marvel"); Mexico's Lost Tribe by Arthur D. Imerti ("Who Are These White-Haired, Pink-Eyed Mexicans?" [on the "mysterious tribe of Mexican albinos who inhabit several villages near the state of Tabasco, hidden among the wooded forests of the Sierra Madre Mountains"]). Covers lightly age-browned; covers show periodic light edge and corner wear.
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Published by Famous Features Syndicate, Inc., New York, NY 1946
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Periodical
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Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the July-September 1946 issue of "The Pan American: Magazine of the Americas" (Vol. 7 No. 4) edited by Hal F. Lee and published by Farris A. Flint and Famous Features Syndicate, Inc. out of New York City. A digest-sized magazine measuring 5-1/2" by 8-1/8" and containing 80…pages including front and rear covers. Special Survey and Digest: The United States. Containing articles and photographs, contents include: Hemisphere Builders: Part IV - The House of Grace by Hal F. Lee (on W. R. Grace & Company); The Right Word by Max Rios ("It's a problem! Just how would you say 'doughnut,' 'oil burner,' or 'air reduction' in Spanish? Countless times, those engaged in the advertising, translating or publishing game in the United States are faced with the problem of groping for the right word in Spanish to adequately describe some U.S. product or idea for the Latin American market"); New Wings in Latin Skies by Daniel H. Ecker ("At one time the silvery, metal condor of Pan American World Airways and Pan American-Grace Airways was almost the only symbol of aircraft in Latin American skies" - "But today, given impetus by the war, other air companies in Latin America and the United States are challenging Paa's supremacy in Latin American skies"); A Newspaper with a Soul by Walter Ingersoll ("How Dr. Jose C. Paz Made 'La Prensa' and Outstanding Argentine Institution"); The Stone of the Sun by Lena Creswell (on the Aztec Calendar design); Nature in Eruption by Charles E. Shaw (on the Paricutin Volcano); He Interprets Brazil by Charles A. Gauld ("[Samuel] Putnam Introduced Brazilian Literature to Americans"); Peaceful Invasion by Frank B. Lenz ("U.S. Sports Have Conquered Latin America"); Special Picture Section: The United States (with 19 photos); Good Neighbor - or Dollar Diplomat? by Ruben M. Rodriguez ("U.S. Foreign Policy - Seen Through Latin Eyes"); Man-Made Giants by Lee Rogers (on the Empire State Building and the Waldorf-Astoria); Latinos en Nueva York by B. Fernandez Aldana ("They Form the Hemisphere's 8th Largest Spanish-Speaking City"); A Native Talks About Brooklyn [New York] by Madeleine M. M. Mills. Covers show periodic light edge and corner wear.
