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...whooping it up last week. Reared to fast horses and bullfighting, habituated to settling disputes with gunpowder, the Plazas each in turn had taken violent exception to the way Ecuador was being run. Galo, the eldest, defied Quito's Police Minister. Captain Leonidas, the second brother, paced a Garcia Moreno cell, restive from a year's political imprisonment for leading an armed revolt protesting the Peru-Ecuador border settlement (TIME, Aug. 17). Lieut. Jose Maria ("Pepe"), the youngest, refused to return to political confinement after attending his uncle's funeral, barricaded himself in Galo's house...
LOST, STRAYED or STOLEN: One slightly compromised confidential mailgram containing a message to Garcia . . . Will the finder please return to Mr. Carscaden for a nice shiny...
...Harvard Dramatic Club announced last night that its spring production will be Frederic Garcia Lorca's "Dena Rosits." The play, to be given in cooperation with the Radcliffe Idler, will see its United States premiere on April...
Julius Klorfein has been busy all his life. Now 58, he is president of Garcia Grande Cigars, Inc., manufacturers of some of the U.S.'s best-selling nickel and two-for-a-nickel smokes. He came to the U.S. from Russia 40-odd years ago and began turning out his own cigars in the window of a little street shop in Brooklyn. His formula for a mild, cheap cigar caught on. It bloomed into tobacco plantations in Connecticut, factories in the U.S., Cuba, Puerto Rico-all turning out millions of Garcia Grandes...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, 85, the Spanish-American War Lieutenant who delivered the famed "message to Garcia"; in the Army's Letterman Hospital in San Francisco. He was sent by President McKinley at war's outbreak to learn from Cuban insurgent General Calixto Garcia the strength of Garcia's forces. He carried his instructions in his head, but uplifter Elbert Hubbard's editorial, A Message to Garcia, put a letter in his hand, later put money in Hubbard's pocket, ultimately sold more than 40,000,000 copies. Rowan's reward...