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Candidate Arias accepted the surprise nomination of the well-oiled National Revolutionary Party machine, on a platform of "Panamanian nationalism." Shunted off to the directorship of the Department of Sanitation after leading Panama's first and only revolution, dark-eyed, Harvard-trained Physician Arias had been started up the...
Ambitious, hotheaded young Dr. Arnulfo Arias bounced brashly into Panamanian politics nine years ago when he led a handful of youthful revolutionaries into the Presidential Palace, forced the resignation of President Florencio Arosemena. Up to the vacated post stepped First Vice President Dr. Ricardo Alfaro. Last year Drs. Arias and...
Life for Miss Claudius began every day at 5 a. m. She slept on a pile of the thousands of old newspapers, some dating back to 1900, which were stacked in the rooms and halls of her house, crammed into broken windows. Bottles, broken furniture, boxes, cartons also filled her...
In 1937, Pianist Templeton moved on to Manhattan. Manhattanites liked his improvisations on any theme that was tossed up to him. His musical satires* floored them completely. Stoop-shouldered, solemn Templeton would sit at the piano and reproduce the sound of a whole Wagnerian opera, pounding out brass chords, yodeling...
One debutant gave thrills to the audience as well as to himself: stocky honey-voiced Swedish Tenor Jussi Bjoerling who had appeared three times previously with the Chicago Opera. Since 1932, when famed Tenor Beniamino Gigli was painfully extracted after a tiff over a salary cut, the Metropolitan had been...