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Fortunes & Murder. From his headquarters hamlet of Brasil, pudgy Victor Merchán, 52, wields power in a 5-sq.-mi. area, on the fringes of which anti-Communist coffeemen patrol their land with rifles. Born of coffee-bean pluckers but now enjoying a fortune from his tax rake-off, Merchán studied two years in Moscow, returned to indoctrinate Colombians and, around 1930, incited peasants to overrun most of the area's coffee plantations...
Shame on Senator John Kennedy of Boston, "the home of the bean and the cod," for downgrading beans! That ought to cost him the Boston vote...
...seized the printing facilities of a Cuban publisher who printed two "Yankee imperialist" magazines: the Latin American editions of TIME and the Reader's Digest. Aware that such a move was imminent, TIME production managers had already made emergency printing arrangements with the Atlanta firm of W. R. Bean & Son (which was used to such emergencies: it printed TIME'S Latin American edition 24 times in 1958 when Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista shut down the Havana plant in displeasure at TIME coverage of his regime...
...bean gun (World War II)-mobile kitchen...
Director Billy Wilder, fresh off the boat from Europe and without a bean in his pocket, picked up his first salary check in Hollywood by hiring out as a stunt man and jumping into a swimming pool in full fig. Since that day, he has splashed about so energetically in the cinema swim that now he is established beyond question as one of Hollywood's most successful screenwriters, as a director who ranks with George Stevens (The Diary of Anne Frank), William Wyler (Ben Hur) and Fred Zinneman (A Nun's Story) in the Big Four...