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...capital by Santa Anna. When irate peons chased one-legged Santa Anna out in the revolution of 1855, Nuño left too. Tired out perhaps by a musician's lot in upsy-downsy Mexican politics, Nuño later settled down to the less turbulent life of Buffalo, N.Y. There he ran a small music academy in the 1870s and '80s. There, in 1906, he was buried...
Last week, the Mexican Government remembered Jaime Nuño, sent an army bomber (the first Mexican war plane to fly over U.S. soil in World War II) to fetch his remains from Buffalo. To the strains of a string quartet and a speech by Mayor Joseph J. Kelly, Composer Nuño's body was exhumed and started on its southward flight. In Mexico City a military guard of honor, 300 music conservatory students and a parade of thousands of school children waited to bear the coffin to Mexico's magnificent Monumento de la Revoluti...
...Buffalo, where "scamping" (pirating of workers) has become a fine art, foremen make the rounds of war workers' homes, to lure them to new jobs. One plant sent telegrams to another's workmen, offering them all good jobs-sight unseen-at 7:30 next morning. Personnel managers were saying: "the way to get one good man is to hire four because three will quit...
...Phillips' arrest for practicing medicine in California without a State license. Three hours of questioning disclosed that he lacked a good deal more than a license. He was not a doctor at all. At first he insisted he had taken a few courses at the University of Buffalo, later admitted that his higher education consisted chiefly of a correspondence course in placer mining. He had spent half of the last 20 years in prison cells for impersonating federal officers, passing worthless checks, selling narcotics, defrauding hotels and practicing medicine without a license in several states. While serving time...
...never before in the history of the American Chemical Society, U.S. ears were cocked toward its semiannual meeting in Buffalo last week. But if Americans expected reassuring words on synthetic rubber and other acute wartime chemical problems, they heard little...