Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...among the ten New England Rhodes scholars in the first scholarship election in seven years, was Charles G. Bolte, Dartmouth '41, founder and present national chairman of the American Veterans Committee. A member of the British Army from 1941 to 1943, Botle lost a leg in the battle of El Alnmein...
...many Illinois small towns. But his local reporting doesn't stop with box socials and births. He once used the Pantagraph to promote one of the best art shows ever held in the Midwest, proved that Illinois farmers by the thousand would pay two bits to see an El Greco...
Divorced. Luis ("El Vate") Muñoz Marin, 48, broody-eyed President of Puerto Rico's Senate, founder and guiding spirit of the Popular Democratic Party, political hero of the poverty-stricken jibaros (hill people); by Muna Lee, 51, Mississippi-born poetess after 27 years of marriage, two children; in San Juan...
...discovering that the pearl brings him no happiness, hurls it into the ocean. These doings involve a heady quota of drinking, amorous women, killings, gun-toting chases over desert and mountains. That the action is reasonably accurate as well as artistic is attributable to tall, broad-shouldered Director Emilio ("El Indio"-The Indian) Fernandez, who knows what he is shooting off his cameras about: he has been over much of that country himself...
Even by the rough & tumble standards of Mexican revolution, El Indio's life story is amazing. When his father left to join one of the revolutionary armies, Emilio, at nine, became head of the family. Practically at once he shot and killed a man for molesting his mother. Hustled into a reform school, he escaped and joined the revolution himself. He fought under General Carranza against Pancho Villa, was captured, sentenced to die at dawn and escaped from a drunken guard. Later he fought with Obregón against Carranza, then against Obregón for General...