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...Grapes of Wrath) leaves for California. Rothermell's prose is less artificial than Steinbeck's, his Ozark dialect more difficult than that of WPA's Tennesseans. Sample: "I done lak seed a sicknun woming a widdur nur no bline gurl withouten no pappy, but shore ez youah name ez Hogner I makun yourn short a pappy, so help me Gawd!" Young Ned Fulton recounts the impact of drought on his father, his sisters, his starving neighbors in their little grey houses. Love interest is Ned's tenderness for Milldy, a mute Ozark urchin. After a raid...
...siege of Pampeluna in 1521, a French cannon ball whizzed between the legs of a Basque knight named Íñigo de Oñez y Loyola, breaking his right shin and tearing his left calf. For the Roman Catholic Church, beleaguered by the Protestant Reformation, that shot was providential. Íñigo, laid up in his castle (and ever after afflicted with a limp), began thinking pious thoughts which led him, in 1534, to form a "flying squadron," the Society of Jesus, in the front ranks of the Church's Counter Reformation against Protestantism...
...known that the defeated Rightist candidate, on his way to Europe, stopped off in Buenos Aires to confer with General Carlos Ibáñez, onetime Strongman of Chile, who was implicated in the Nacista uprising and is regarded by some Rightists as their white hope for another revolt. At week's end, back to Chile flew General Ibanez, presumably with President Aguirre's permission. He was welcomed by several thousand cheering Nacistas in their green shirts and military caps...
...however, this record was rudely broken when Chilean Nazis, members of the storm-trooping Nacista (Nazi) Party, staged a revolt. It lasted four hours. When the shooting stopped, 62 persons were dead. Arrested were Führer Jorge Gonzalez von Marees and popular old General Carlos Ibáñez, a former dictator, who was the Nazis' Presidential candidate...
...Provisional President of Ecuador, stern-lipped Federico Páez suddenly announced his resignation last week, prepared to leave for the U. S. Since 1935 a tight little military group has ruled Ecuador. In September of that year they booted out Dr. Antonio Pons and replaced him with Páez as dictator. Last week, without leaving the saddle, the army coterie boosted into the Provisional Presidency War Minister Alberto Enríquez, who modestly admitted "the duties are too heavy for my shoulders." Showing no signs of this weakness, he dissolved the National Assembly, announced that he had assumed...