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...March, they wondered how long he could live. Soon he had strength enough only to conduct affairs of. state at his bedside. Last week in a Montevideo hospital long-ailing Tomás Berreta called his Cabinet for a last meeting. Two hours later he died. Through streets jam-packed with mourners, his supporters bore his coffin on their shoulders to Government House...
...There was a single report from his .38-cal. revolver, then the roar of four shotguns in the hands of prison guards. Convicts scattered frantically, flopping to the ground, diving under the buildings for cover. One made the barbed-wire-topped fence before a cursing guard, kicking loose a jam in his weapon, blasted him down with a load of buckshot...
Madrid is an accurate index to the expansive mood of Spain's rich & mighty who follow the traditional social season-Seville in April, Madrid in May and June, San Sebastian in July and August (then back to the Madrid black market for the drab winter months). Now they jam the Palace and Chicote bars, their ranks reinforced by distinguished foreign refugees such as the Petacci family of Mussolini's late mistress, Clara...
...Brussels, Rita Hay worth fainted in a jam of admirers just as she was about to be presented to Belgium's Minister of the Interior. She was revived within a few minutes and got busy signing autographs...
Instead, Greening landed in the Italian P.W. camp at Chieti, and there learned that art sometimes pays. For Greening it paid a pack of cigarets or a can of jam per portrait of his fellow prisoners. "On lean days," Greening remembers, "my roommates and I would eat jam until we were sick. Sometimes when the food ran out all over we'd give the jam back to the guys it came from." Greening also staged an art show in an unused latrine, which was held over "by popular demand...