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This week Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez conferred with his anxious cabinet. Twelve years, five months after he seized power, the Dictator agreed to "deposit the Presidency" in the hands of others...
Winner among male singers was Miguelito Valdes (real name Eugenio Lazaro Miguel Izquierdo Valdes y Hernandez), whose vigorous song-shouting has been featured with both Cugat and Machito. With the latter's band, big, bull-like Valdes recently recorded an album of his guarachas (risque ballads) and pregons (street-vendor songs) for Decca. He sings in a variety of moods from the comic to the truculent, but always with a full head of steam. He grew up on the Havana docks, became a prize fighter, started as a singer when the Havana Riverside Casino fished him out of tough...
...member of the Canadian-U.S. Joint Defense Board; Brigadier General Miguel S. González Cadena, 50, onetime Chief of the Mexican Cavalry, Navy and Air Force; Vice Admiral Alfred Wilkinson Johnson, 65, onetime commander of the U.S. Atlantic Squadron; Brigadier General Tomás Sánchez Hernandez, 47, Chief of the Technical Division of the Mexican Army, military historian, now in Rio at the conference of American Republics...
Escapists. In Brooklyn, Angel Hernandez climbed the 200-foot tower of Manhattan Bridge, lay down and stayed. "I just wanted a little peace and quiet," he told police. At Fort Lewis, Wash., Private Kenneth Wilkinson saw his 245th feature-length movie since his enlistment last October. His explanation: "They make me forget my troubles...
...orchestra, reinforced with a few Mexican guitarists and including five men to bang the tablefuls of kitchenware in the percussion section. Conductor Chavez, with a precise, clean beat and an extraordinarily contented look, led off with three concerts last week, then turned the orchestra over to his assistant, Eduardo Hernandez Moncada, who will lead the same program twice daily until...