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...testimony was a letter lifted from the Cuban embassy last winter after Fidel Castro's bearded revolutionaries toppled the Batista regime. Written by Oscar de la Torre, Batista's Ambassador to Mexico at the time, the letter confirmed what everyone had long suspected-that Aldo Baroni, columnist for Mexico City's daily Excelsior, had taken money to say nice things about Dictator Batista. The ambassador wrote to a presidential aide in Havana: "Our friend Villaboy gave me a check for $4,000. Following instructions of the President [i.e., Batista], I endorsed the check to Senor Aldo Baroni...
...Mexico, there was little reason for Columnist Baroni to be deeply disturbed by the exposure. He was following an established custom, a journalistic practice common in many places in Latin America. Many a Mexican newsman is for sale; a chief duty of government press officers is to disburse igualas (fees) to reporters...
...flashing. There bodies were sectioned off beneath white sheets by aproximate age and sex. "Maffiola?" a hite-coated attendant called out. "The Maffiola family?" Another attendant died: "Sarno? Anyone here for Sarno?" A deputy coroner told a registrar: "Better leave room for 100 names." The names: Michele Altobell . . . Karen Baroni . . . David Biscan . . . Philip Tampone . . . Christine Vitacco . . . Wayne Wisz. The toll: 91 dead-53 girls, 35 boys, three nuns-and more than 100 injured...
...Harr! Harr! That's a lot of Baroni," said the Sage of Age to his consumptive sidekick, Wun Lung Gon, who had been making disparaging comments about the Harlow team. "Why, Harvard Towers way over Princeton. A Crimson victory appears Pearson the books...
...matched his skill against the top-notch jockeys of the country at all the Eastern tracks, is the second highest money winner ($250,000) as well as the leading rider. Ever since 1935 when he made his Eastern debut by winning five out of six races on Bert Baroni's Top Row, Johnny Longden has been in great demand. A contract rider for the famed Wheatley Stable until two months ago, he is now under contract to Don Cameron, trainer for the stables of Mrs. John Hertz, Vera Bragg and J. Shirley Riley, at $17,000 a year-highest...