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Their female counterparts, Hermia and Helena, emerge woefully lopsided in performance. Diana Davila's Hermia has an unpleasant voice that an occasion indulges in pure squeal- ing; and she doesn't seem to understand what she is mouthing much of the time. Dorothy Tristan's Helena shows a wider vocal range and considerable skill as a farceuse. When she pleads to Demetrius, "Give me leave...to follow you," she waddles on her knees with comic aggressiveness; and when Lysander describes himself as "touching now the point of human skill," she instinctively grasps her breasts in self-protection...
Chile's Carlos Davila, secretary-general of the Organization of American States (set up at the Bogota Conference in 1948), had even better figures to back him up. Davila told the conference that Latin America has paid back to the U.S. (on public and private loans) $1.5 billion more than the U.S. had put in; for U.S. investors, the profit rate comes to a thumping...
...National Committee for a Free Europe, the magazine is compiled with the help of refugees who have escaped from behind the curtain. Among them are three former members of Parliaments: Hungary's Dr. Paul Fabry, Yugoslavia's Dr. Miha Krek and Rumania's Charles Davila. Originallyorganized to help supply information for the National Committee's Radio Free Europe, the staffers work in a cluttered, clattering office on the third floor of a Manhattan building, where they translate and analyze news in papers from their homelands, aided by the interpretation of refugees. Specialists on Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Rumania...
...Mexico City, surprised Author Chavez commented: "Sancho Davila should really challenge Hitler to a duel, if alive, or if dead, look for his soul, wherever...
...banned, it could be bought in the black market at 500 pesetas ($20) a copy. The price was steep but rewarding. Serrano Suñer had passed on to the book's author, Journalist Armando Chavez Camacho of Mexico City, a choice comment by Adolf Hitler on Sancho Davila, a burly Falangist bullyboy who had once killed two party rivals in a political brawl, and had long been feuding with Serrano Suñer. Sneered the Führer: "[Sancho Davila] is stupidity personified . . . the greatest fool ever to come to my headquarters...