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Adapted by Director Norman Foster and Josefina Niggli from her 1945 novel, A Mexican Village, the picture was entirely photographed in authentic settings. Although it tries to affect a rakishly romantic tilt, Sombrero is mostly...
Albert K. Hannum, an engineer of Willoughby, Ohio, recently wrote to me about Josefina ("Joey") Guerrero. He said that it's about time for a progress report on Joey...
...small, ragged woman shuffling through the streets of Manila. No sentry detained her for long after he had discovered, beneath her thin blouse and the swathed bandages, the lesions of leprosy. But to thousands of U.S. prisoners, she was known affectionately as "Joey." Before the war, Mrs. Josefina Guerrero had been something of a belle in Manila society. She was young, pretty and vivacious. Her husband was a wealthy medical student at Santo Tomas University. They had a two-year-old daughter...
...housewives joined the protest over the petroleum famine. Before Mexico took the oil industry away from its foreign owners in 1938, most Mexicans cooked on charcoal braziers. Then, with sudden oil wealth, the Avila Camacho Government ordered landlords to furnish kerosene stoves. A domestic revolution ensued. Last week Josefina Novarra, 23, stood in a Mexico City kerosene queue and spoke her mind. "Look how we have to stand in line to get a little kerosene for our stoves," she grumbled. "And they want certain kinds of cans or they won't sell you any. Damn the whole Pemex outfit...
Probable first Alemán move: fire Pemex Director Efrain Buenrostro. After that, anything might happen, including the return, in some form, of foreign interests (TIME, Aug. 5). There might even be kerosene for Josefina's stove...