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Died. Dr. Victor Manuel Román y Reyes, 77, mild-mannered, figurehead President of Nicaragua since 1947, uncle and loyal retainer of strong-arm Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza; after an operation for cancer; in Philadelphia...
...seeming contradiction between the gentle Attlee and the frequently ungentle Labor Party could not be explained by brushing Attlee off as a figurehead. In actual power over party decisions, quiet, little (5 ft. 7½ in., 140 Ibs.) Clem Attlee stood head & shoulders above his fellow Laborite leaders. This was true even though he lacked Aneurin Bevan's fiery eloquence, Herbert Morrison's parliamentary skill, Sir Stafford Cripps's brilliance and Ernest Bevin's command of the warm loyalty of millions of unionists. What Attlee did have was political balance and a sense of timing. These...
...referee raised the new champion's glove, someone yelled, "Where's Joe?" They found Joe Louis, figurehead director of boxing for boxing's new monopoly, the International Boxing Club.* Joe climbed into the ring to hand La Motta a gold championship belt (with a diamond, two sapphires and two rubies). "Nice going, Jake," said Joe. La Motta shed a few proud tears. When the receipts were counted, I.B.C. discovered it had lost $4,000 on its first major fight promotion...
Along Lisbon's sunny streets last week nearly all available space was filled with election posters. One bore the likeness of Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar and of President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona, a 79-year-old general and pompous figurehead. The legend on the poster was: "Dois homens uma só obra"-two men with one work. Opponents of the regime had crossed out the a in uma, which changed the meaning: two men, one goes to the bathroom...
Young Edbury Hatch had just picked the wrong trade. When he was a boy in Newcastle, Me., the town had supported ten busy shipyards and every new vessel needed a carved figurehead. But by 1870, when William Southworth discharged Hatch, business was starting to fall...