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Ponce, who lost one son in the fighting, was exiled to Mexico. General Miguel Idigoras Fuentes, who dreamt of becoming the strong man of Guatemala through his friendship with Captain Arbenz, was sent to Washington as military attach...
Then coming home from the excursion the beaut of the day was pulled. As the bus started over the Lars Andersen Bridge an alarmed and Regulation-ridden Curly Drexler shouted for all to attach a line and buoy to their wallets...
...spent three months in a U.S. hospital on her last visit (1942-43) to the Western Hemisphere, arrived by plane in Brazil. She was suffering from nervous exhaustion and insomnia, planned a three-month rest cure. In China, she had been under the care of U.S. Assistant Naval Attaché Commander Frank Harrington, said he had warned her that "I'd never be cured if I stayed in Chungking...
Actually, the only notes he ever takes are of the names & addresses which stud his column (occasionally accompanied by such messages as "Corporal Charles Malatesta of Maiden, Mass, asks me to tell his wife that he loves her"). His usual practice is to attach himself to one small unit for several days (in last week's columns it was an ack-ack gun crew), and live just as they live, doing no writing at all. When he has learned enough, he goes back to the rear and spins out as many columns as the experience is good for. Sometimes...
...highest U.S. official who had ever visited that dot in vast Chinese Turkestan. In preparation for the great day, the Governor,General Sheng Shih-tsai, laid in a fresh supply of toothbrushes, tongue-scrapers, and ear-cleaners, had the columns of his house freshly painted, took a U.S. Embassy attaché down a flight of stairs to show him the only flush toilet in all Sinkiang (600,000 sq. mi.). Proudly Governor Sheng pulled the chain. It worked...