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This doctrine has not gone unnoticed in Mexico (or in other parts of Latin America). Many leading Mexicans will never forget or forgive the insulting treatment they have received in Texas. Said Mañana, a Mexican weekly: "The Nazis of Texas are not political partners of the Führer of Germany . . . but indeed they are slaves of the same prejudices and superstitions. Mexicans have become the victims of ignorant rabble who see in blond hair and blue eyes their pretended racial superiority." In Mexico City's Novedades, Cartoonist Garcia Cabral scornfully, resentfully showed Mexican Comic Character Cantinflas...
...sullen and moldering domain, full of crime, where malicious clubwomen exchange poisoned compliments in honeyed Southern accents and where somber husbands carry in their pockets rattlesnake rattles which they buzz as their speechless comment on the life of their times. In Courthouse Square, revolving around a lynching, ana in Sun in Capricorn, about the rise of a worse Huey Long, Author Basso drew as bitter a picture of his native section as Sinclair Lewis drew in Main Street and Babbitt...
...Private Joe Di Maggio is playing ball at Camp Santa Ana, Calif...
With stars like these, Army & Navy nines are not only serving the purpose for which they were originally intended (entertainment of trainees), but in some areas are drawing larger civilian crowds than big-league clubs. When the Santa Ana flyers played the Hollywood Stars (Pacific Coast League) last month, Angelenos packed the stadium. Whenever Johnny Beazley's team plays a neighboring semi-pro outfit, the park is packed. Five thousand civilians purchased nearly $100,000 in war bonds to see a recent exhibition game between the Norfolk Naval Training Station and the Norfolk Naval Air Station...
...group is swarthy, pint-sized Private Woodrow Wilson Rich (famed boy-prodigy violinist Ruggiero Ricci)* and his cellist brother George Washington Rich. Wood Wilson Rich (who has developed a soldierly liking for hot dogs) sits in the middle of the second row of violinists, fiddles such Santa Ana numbers as Jive Bomber on his $3,000 Lorenzo Storione violin...