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...Hemisphere's only war has been going on during the past fortnight-in defiance of an armistice agreement and unknown to the rest of the world. The Peruvians entered the Gulf of Guayaquil with several ships and planes. Just twelve Peruvian parachutists took Machala and seven took Puerto Bolivar. They kept banging away at the town as they floated down, but stopped when there was no Ecuadorian counter fire. Peruvian troops moved easily across the flat land between the coast and Piedras. In a miniature Blitz they burned farms, confiscated crops, looted houses even of radio sets and bric...
...diplomats hastened to proffer their good offices, hoping that at this time, of all times, the Americas would not get to fighting among themselves. But while statesmen took counsel together, 15,000 people marched through the streets of Quito, waving flags, stood bareheaded before the statue of Simon Bolivar and sang the Ecuadorian national anthem...
...Ameche prefers Carmen Miranda, Pan-American attraction is adequately proved. That Night in Rio should convince Latins that the yanquis are trying to be good albeit slightly dreamy and gushing, neighbors. If they want other evidence, they can look forward to Robert Taylor in The Life of Simon Bolivar, Tyrone Power in Blood and Sand and R. K. O.'s They Met in Argentina, coming Hollywood productions inspired by Mr. Whitney's non-compulsory suggestions...
Excellently drawn, in fresh, lively colors, intelligently captioned, True Comics offered: the colorful stories of Winston Churchill, "World Hero No.1";-George Rogers Clark, potent Revolutionary War hero and frontier fighter; David Bushnell, ingenious Yankee inventor of the first submarine in the Revolutionary War; Simon Bolivar, great South American liberator, whose hero was George Washington. Other brightly colored features include a series on the world's warplanes in action, Lowell Thomas' "greatest adventure," the story of the original Greek Marathon run. Confident first edition was 300,000 copies...
Hollywood still was making hopeful gestures toward Latin America last week. In production were half a dozen films with Latin backgrounds, including M. G. M.'s The Life of Simon Bolivar with Robert Taylor, 20th Century-Fox's remake of Blood and Sand with Tyrone Power, Paramount's Mexican story, Rurales. In Washington, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics, conferred with John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, who announced a new promotion drive for U. S. pictures in Latin America, "based solely on the presentation of entertainment films...