Word: ingles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These lines may look like the result of internationally-crossed wires-but they are really a 23-second sample of a new 15-minute radio program TIME has gotten up. It is called Aprendamos Inglés, and it aims to help people in Spanish America learn English painlessly-by letting them listen in on some informal talk between a North American called Joe Bishop and his South American friend, one Pepe Obispo...
...very real sense Aprendamos Inglés ("Let's Learn English") is a request program-for we might never have thought of the idea if so many important U.S. and Latin American officials had not written us about our Spanish-teaching program here in the U.S. (Among them were the Ambassadors of Panama, Venezuela and Uruguay, the Ministers of El Salvador, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, the Consul General of Cuba, several top-ranking radio members of the Rockefeller Committee, and scores of other dignitaries and just plain interested citizens.) And many of them asked if we could...
...America. It will be sponsored by the American Home Products Corp. of New York City as a public service in the hope that it will help draw the Americas closer together. For only one in about 43 Latin Americans speaks English now-and we like to think that Aprendamos Inglés will help teach our language to many more...
Under the heading "Dithyrambic With Key" El Pampero had printed a harmless lampoon of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. But the first letter of each line, joined in descending order, spelled out the less harmless acrostic: Hay que ser inglés para ser hijo de puta (One must be English to be a son of a whore). Within 72 hours Osés was indicted for obscenity and the trial date set. That night, on the fashionable Calle Florida, youthful mem bers of the newly formed, patriotic Action Argentina patrolled the sidewalks, seized and burned copies of El Pampero...