Word: fernando
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan, said the Government, was to cause the forces of the Bolivian army to be dispersed throughout the mining areas, then in provincial capitals, to create disturbances which would end in revolution. This week the Government announced the arrest of two Bolivian leaders, Leftist Revolutionary Fernando Sinani and Moises Alcoba, President of the Federation of Syndical Workers...
...Fernando Valley (Calif.) Times turns a neat profit without benefit of comics, syndicated features, national advertising, a sports page, or even a sales price. The standard-size throwaway, 62,000 copies of which are distributed free twice a week, is not interested in World War II. Its sole interest is in telling the valley's 200,000 residents about themselves, and playing ball with valley merchants. They pack its 40 pages with advertising (including twelve solid pages of classified ads) to the exclusion of big Los Angeles merchants. The man who perfected this successful formula now has developed...
Died. Tony, the late Tom Mix's famed "wonder horse"; of euthanasia; in San Fernando, Calif...
...Angeles veterinarian and a taxidermist drove out one day last week to the San Fernando Valley ranch of the late Tom Mix, walked into a shed where the most famous horse since Pegasus stood in the mildness of his last few moments alive. The horse was Tony, who was a scrawny yearling following a vegetable wagon around a small town in Arizona when Tom Mix gave $12.50 for him. In the years that followed, Tony became the valiant central symbol of a cinematic age of innocence, the hero of millions of small boys and some of the best juveniles ever...
With a perfect batting average-three hits in three pictures and an Academy Award nomination thrown in-Teresa quietly pursues her private life on her new husband's walnut-treed, swimming-pooled, press-agent-free acres in San Fernando Valley. If Sam Goldwyn is right, this tranquil double life will not last. Says he earnestly and grammatically, apropos her role in Pride of the Yankees: "She doesn't need much ballyhoo. Far better the public should discover her. They will. She's got it inside, things you can't learn...