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...happier circumstances-for Argentina, at any rate-Juan Domingo Perón might have made an excellent naval damage-control officer. Last week he set coolly about the job of containing and repairing his losses from the June revolt. For President Perón, the single worst damage from the explosion was public outrage at the burning of nine Roman Catholic churches by Peronista arsonists (see below). It was to the task of conciliating the church, with the least possible loss of face, that he turned first...
...Feel the Spirit. In Salisbury, Md., Earl McGlotten, 53, was sentenced to 30 days in jail after the Rev. Daniel Quillen, pastor of the San Domingo Methodist Episcopal Church, reported that during a Sunday-morning service McGlotten strolled about shaking hands with parishioners, repeatedly sang Throw Out the Life Line, and occasionally stepped out to his car for a nip of wine...
Died. Mario Avelino Peron, 64, only brother of Argentina's President Juan Domingo Peron; of peritonitis; in Buenos Aires. Appointed director of the Buenos Aires Zoo by brother Juan in 1946, Mario Perón avoided the spotlight and politics, once said: "I prefer my zoo, where I have all my animals labeled...
...Lion. If Scott drew on his tradition, his greatest disciple created the most popular works in igth Century French literature by sheer personal exuberance. The son of an illegitimate mulatto general from Santo Domingo, Dumas crashed the august Comédie Française with a rip-roaring historical drama, Henri III and His Court, and became the kinky-maned lion of Paris...
...arts college as well as one of the top Negro seminaries. Though Lincoln has no other professional schools, its alumni account for 17% of U.S. Negro doctors and scientists and 10% of U.S. Negro lawyers. Its graduates have served in twelve state legislatures, been U.S. Ministers to Haiti, Santo Domingo and Liberia. One alumnus, ex-Pullman Porter Hildrus A. Poindexter, is a ranking authority on tropical diseases; N.A.A.C.P. Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall graduated in 1930; a year before, Lincoln produced Poet Langston Hughes...