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...game he had chosen to see turned out to be the longest (2 hr. 49 min.) and one of the most spectacular in World Series history. When it was over, 18-to-4 for the Yankees, the Giants had used five pitchers. Every Yankee including Pitcher Lefty Gomez had made at least one hit and one run. Baseball statisticians had compiled an even dozen new records. It was the biggest score and the worst beating in World Series history. Most brilliant individual performance was that of Second Baseman Tony Lazzeri. He duplicated a feat accomplished only once before...
...cannot see how the facts which follow in Gomez, Tyrant of the Andes would account for disinterest. They might account for dislike, distaste or even nausea, but scarcely for disinterest if my knowledge of psychology is worth anything...
...week, to travel behind the front lines was to be stopped every few miles by men or women bristling with arms but too ignorant to read the passports and documents which they threateningly demanded. In Madrid one of the Government's official passers-out-of-arms, Commandant Carlos Gomez, cheerfully announced: "We are training 1,000 people a day and sending them to all fronts...
...much of that training is spent in shooting practice?" "What!" cried Commandant Gomez, "You don't think we waste ammunition on rifle practice? Our Militia gets all its shooting practice at the front!" Franco and Mola, Soldiers of professional standing and technical proficiency are the leaders of the Revolution: short, stoutish, dynamic General Francisco Franco, Arabic-speaking onetime Commander of the Spanish Foreign Legion in Morocco whose brother Ramon is "The Spanish Lindbergh";* and slim, tortoise-spectacled, tenacious General Emilio Mola, the Cuban-born son of a captain in the traditionally non-partisan Civil Guard...
Venezuela's counterpart of the French Bastille is Caracas' vast, dreadful Rotunda Prison, into one of whose small cells there were sometimes crammed as many as 34 shackled prisoners. Last week the Government which succeeded the long reign of implacable Dictator Juan Vicente Gomez removed the last political prisoner from the Rotunda to a new prison nearby. The Rotunda was opened as a museum piece of past tyrannies. The public was cordially invited to inspect its square quarter-mile of horrors...