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Spanish names made tragic news: Madrid reported that Mario, son of the late, best-selling Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse), had been sentenced to twelve years in prison on a charge of having once been a Mason. He might get a commutation: he is paralyzed, deaf and nearly blind...
...Stratton Porter's The Harvester; 1914-Eleanor H. Porter's Polly anna. 1916-Booth Tarkington's Seventeen. Harold Bell Wright's When a Man's a Man; 1917-H. G. Wells's Mr. Britling Sees It Through; 1919-V. Blasco Ibáñez's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Henry Adams' The Education of Henry Adams; 1921-Sinclair Lewis' Main Street; 1922-A. S. M. Hutchinson's If Winter Comes; 1923-Gertrude Ather-ton's Black Oxen; 1924-Edna Ferber...
Gonzalez, now 47, first got his fireworks reputation when, as a young champion of peoples' rights, he played cops & robbers with Dictator Carlos Ibañez' police. Arrested, he begged permission to blow his nose, instead sprinted two blocks to the Radical Club, where fellow members protected him. As late as last year, quick-tempered Sr. Gonzalez slung an inkwell at a fellow Senator in a congressional free...
Died. Juan Antonio Rios, 57, Chile's middle-of-the-road, opportunistic President (1942-46) who was elected with leftist support as a lesser evil than ex-Strong Man Ibáñez, under wartime stresses maintained a reasonable Right; of cancer; in Santiago (see LATIN AMERICA...
...From 1830 to 1930 Ecuador had 13 constitutions and 30-odd rulers, most of whom had to be removed from office by force. Reader Páez, Ecuador's President from 1935 to 1937, suspended the Constitution and ruled by decree for more than a year, suppressed several uprisings by supporters of Dr. Velasco Ibarra, and, in 1938, took refuge in the Chilean legation when his Government ordered his arrest on charges of misusing public funds...