Word: del
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carlos Vial, president of the potent Banco Sudamericano and one of Chile's biggest bullmarket operators, tracked down Wachholtz in swank Viña del Mar and in the presence of President González, was said to have accused him of playing bear and speculating on the market drop. Husky Minister Wachholtz swung on Vial, knocked out two teeth. Last week Vial sued for "grave lesions" to his person; Wachholtz sued also-for defamation and injury by publicity...
...Time. Only the much-discussed merger of Episcopalians and Presbyterians seemed as far off as ever (TIME, Sept. 23). But in last week's Christian Century, Methodist Pastor C. Stanley Lowell of Dover, Del., proposed a new and more promising church wedding for the Episcopalians. Wrote...
...teaching Indian arts at the National School of Anthropology. He is preparing an illustrated edition of Pearl Buck's translation from the Chinese, All Men Are Brothers; he has sketched out two gigantic mural maps of Mexico for the lobby of the big new Hotel del Prado. Yet he has time for some painting of his own, and time also to be one of the city's most genial, gregarious characters...
...school kids at Mt. Pleasant Public School near Wilmington, Del., did not realize it, but they were guinea pigs in a new program in "preventive psychiatry," sponsored by the Delaware State Society for Mental Hygiene. The society's executive director, Colonel H. Edmund Bullis, prefers to call it "human relations in the classroom." His theory: psychiatrists spend their time straightening out maladjusted grownups; it is better to catch the youngsters before they get that way. Twenty-eight Delaware public schools have set up experimental classes in human relations...
...homeland, Indio shot up rapidly in Mexican movies, was soon a leading actor. From a friendly, peripatetic U.S. script writer, with whom he became buddies, Indio learned story technique. In time he became the country's leading director, turned out the enormously successful films that Dolores del Rio made in Mexico after leaving Hollywood. For three years, Indio and Dolores were always seen together. Now they are only socially polite...