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...flag struck over Havana's Morro Castle. Up went the Cuban flag (blue & white stripes, a triangular red field with one white star). Cuba's Independence Day came & went last week and seldom had Cubans felt less independent. In the eastern provinces of Santa Clara, Camaguey and Oriente rebellion was smoldering precisely as it did 40 years ago when Spain was Cuba's tyrant. Some 2,000 insurrectos were hiding out in the hills at war with the regime of Dictator Gerardo Machado. They were mostly well-horsed, wellarmed, uniformed in blue denim. They...
...news that Ortiz was coming, the rebels flickered among the hills like fireflies. They attacked a Rural Guard patrol in Sancti Spiritus, killed three guardsmen. Twenty-five of them quietly overran and pillaged the sympathetic village of Taguasco. Others derailed a Havana-Santa Clara City passenger train, dynamited railway bridges at Jiqui, Donato and Tarafa. They looked for reinforcements, ammunition and money from the Cuban exiles in Miami. Cuba's onetime President Mario Menocal had disappeared from Miami. Some said (but few believed) he was on the high seas with the men and guns the Santa Clara rebels wanted...
...University of California gave LL, D.'s to Wisconsin's Alexander Meiklejohn; Consulting Engineer Lillian Moller Gilbreth; and, on his sickbed, to Chemistry Professor Emeritus Edmond O'Neill, 73. The University of Santa Clara gave an LL. D. to Dr. Oliver D. Hamlin of Oakland. Calif., a founder and fellow of the American College of Surgeons...
Composer Robert Schumann's pianist-wife Clara gave to Brahms's life the romantic touch without which biographers never would have been satisfied. Brahms never married but Clara Schumann encouraged him through his failures, inspired him to compose love songs as deeply personal as any that have been written. The D Minor Concerto failed at its first hearing, partly because Brahms played the piano part himself more vigorously than accurately. It took Clara Schumann, who played it the length & breadth of Europe, to make it known for what it was worth. The premiere of the Violin Concerto...
...testimony the court has heard it would appear that the cause must ever remain in the realm of conjecture." Meanwhile the joint Congressional committee of investigation went to Akron to begin hearings. Sunnyvale, Forty miles south of San Francisco in the orchard land of the Santa Clara Valley, hard by Herbert Hoover's Palo Alto, is a field of pure gold with a silver mound in the centre. The gold is a carpet of California poppies. The silver is the shimmering aluminum paint of an airship dock, second in size only to the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock at Akron...