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...Wainwright at Corregidor and the man who now returned to the Philippines. He had been a good general then; now he was one of the great. Outwardly he was the same colorful, often theatrical soldier, visibly aged since December 1941, a little flabbier around the jowls and beltline, half bald, with a brushed-over lock of hair which he selfconsciously stroked when his cap was off. But his military stature had grown vastly. He still spoke sound military theory in rounded periods, full of historical allusions. But theory had now been backed by experience in a new kind...
...Ponce critic who did not flee to the Mexican Embassy was Alejandro Cordova, bald little Congressman and publisher of El Imparcial. One day Publisher Cordova was murdered by assassins. Last week Ponce held a closely supervised election to name, among others, a successor for Deputy Cordova. People shouting "Viva Arevalo!" were clapped in jail. Then the revolution broke out. Before he left for Mexico, General Ponce occupied Arevalo's former suite in the Mexican Embassy...
Died. Colonel Deneys Reitz, 62, bald, bold, Boer-born High Commissioner for South Africa, autobiographer (Commando, Trekking On); in London. Afrikaner Reitz escaped from the British to Madagascar after the Boer War, returned from exile at the invitation of his good friend Jan Smuts, fought with the Royal Scots Fusiliers in World War I, became omnipresent in South African public life...
Plunge to the Sea. Earlier in the week, bald and black-mustached General Ivan Bagramian-the onetime Armenian herdsman and train mechanic who first reached the Gulf of Riga last summer-reached the sea again, this time 15 miles north of Memel. The Germans trapped between Memel and Riga began trying to escape from Libau, Latvia's second-largest port, and from the port of Windau farther north, under a hail of fire from Red planes. At night people on Gotland Island, which lies in the Baltic west of Latvia, saw flashes from big naval guns...
This seemed like bald politicking, like a broad wink to reassure labor leaders that Hopkins was still one of the boys. For to raise the wage floor would have little effect on established industries, most of which now pay hourly wages far above a 60? minimum. Those who would be affected, notably textile workers, are too few to have much effect on consumption...