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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last March, Police Chief Colonel Filomeno Velazco suspected Aguirre Cámara of being editor of the famous underground newspaper Himno National (National Anthem). Arrested and imprisoned, Aguirre Cámara won his liberty by promising not to attack the Government without telling the police beforehand. Last month, astonished Police Chief Velazco got Aguirre Cámara's warning. Soon, wrote the cheeky ex-deputy, he would publish a scathing pamphlet. He would print it in Argentina. He would remain in the country "until I am convinced that the people do not want to be saved...
...domestic atmosphere of Winnetka took her in 1935 to newspaper work in Shanghai and an unconventional apartment in the city's red-light district. She stayed in the Orient long enough to contribute numerous Chinese vignettes to the New Yorker, write a book about China's most famous women (The Soong Sisters), have an illegitimate child by the chief of the British Military Intelligence in Hong Kong. Last year the Japs sent her home on the Gripsholm...
Frost, now a professor at Dartmouth, has visited Harvard many times to read his famous poems here...
...Famous for Literary Criticism...
...Having been invited many times . . . to realize over there, under my own conducting, some concerts with my symphonic works, I am now organizing the respective plan. . . ." In other, less fancy words: Latin America's most famous composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos, would like to visit Los Angeles and conduct the Janssen Symphony Orchestra in a concert of his own compositions...