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...McAlpin fired him for reporting to duty in one white shoe and one yellow one. The Ritz suspended him for dropping an ambassador's breakfast tray. Only after he had served in the U.S. Army in World War I (he was an attendant at a Government insane asylum), did he begin to work steadily-first in the banquet department at the Ritz, and later as a writer and illustrator of such bestsellers as Hotel Splendide and Life Class...
...organize resistance in eastern Cuba. Arriving by back roads at Matanzas, 100 miles east of Havana, he found Batista's captains and lieutenants already in command. On learning by telephone that garrisons further east were also in Batista's hands, he gave up and drove back to asylum in Mexico's Havana embassy. As he posed for photographers before taking off for exile in Mexico the next day, there were tears in his eyes...
...hosts were dismayingly hospitable. They gave parties and introduced the fugitive to their guests. Finally the underground supplied the information Evelyn needed: the Seguridad thought that she had information to spill, and would arrest her soon. After another long discussion, it was decided that she should seek asylum in the Chilean embassy...
There, next morning, the fugitive found white-mustached Ambassador Alberto Serrano Pellé mowing his lawn. When she asked asylum, the ambassador curtly refused. There was a sharp argument.* "Thank you," snapped Evelyn, "I won't forget this." Serrano shouted: "I won't forget it either!" Desperate, Evelyn ran out, hailed a taxi and went to the Ecuadorian embassy, which she had previously feared to try because the Seguridad had guards on watch outside. Suddenly ordering the driver to stop, she skipped in the side door past three flatfooted Seguridad sentinels. Inside, she got a quick "Yes" from...
...observer of this scene was TIME Correspondent Phil Payne, who had learned earlier of Evelyn Trujillo's predicament, and decided to cover the story of her search for asylum. The angry ambassador reported the visit of both the fugitive and the reporter to the authorities. Three days later Seguridad officials deported Payne for "mixing in internal politics...