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...made big money in brewing, banking and real estate. Retiring to Paris, he directed his ever-growing Argentine affairs from an inconspicuous office on Boulevard St. Germain. When he died in Monte Carlo at 75, he left four sons to increase the family fortune. Two of them, Otto and Federico, stuck to the job. Argentine society boasts of its rock-bound exclusiveness, but the Bembergs married aristocratically. Accepted in Buenos Aires by the snooty Jockey Club and the Circulo de Armas, they blossomed ornately in prewar Paris, where their salons were famous for social glitter...
Such was the glittering surface. Beneath, the country crawled with rumors of many-hued discontent. In a wave of repression, police last week arrested conservative former Finance Minister Federico Pinedo, other prominent citizens, scores of so-called "Communists." Soldiers invaded the great Grafa textile mill, seized 500 men & women workers, let most of them go after a warning. Some Argentines thought that the militarists were heading off a popular demonstration planned for May 25, National Independence Day. But the Government gave no explanation. The surface of Argentine life went brightly smooth again...
...Died. Federico Cardinal Cattani-Amadori, 86, veteran Vatican jurist; of heart disease; in Rome. Papal auditor and secretary of the Apostolic Signatura ( Supreme Tribunal of the Roman Curia), he became a Cardinal in 1935. He was the sixth Cardinal to die within the last year...
...Joseph Pennell. the gloomy, satirical lithographs of such old warhorses as Manhattan's George Bellows, ended with samples by big-city artists like Adolf Dehn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Paul Cadmus, Midwestern and Southern regionalists like Grant Wood, Thomas Benton and John McGrady, experimentalists like Stuart Davis and Federico Castellon...
...revolutionary murals on which Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros rode to fame has pretty well petered out today, but the art of easel painting is running full blast. A flourishing group of some 40 able painters, including Abstractionists Carlos Orozco Romero and Carlos Merida, splashily realistic Jesus Guerrero Galvan and Federico Cantu, are beginning to be known in the U. S. Among the new ones touted by Critic Helm are Antonio Ruiz, who paints street scenes in a Covarrubias-like style, and 21-year-old Guillermo Meza, who took up painting be cause he didn't have enough money...