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Manhattan police, poking through the tenement apartment of Lolita Lebron, last week uncovered several such impassioned verses among her drab effects. They were written by Lolita, the fiery divorcee who organized and led the armed assault on Congress (TIME, March 8), and they serve as a sort of battle hymn for the fanatic Puerto Rican Nationalist Party that also staged the 1950 assault on Blair House. Lolita, police discovered, is a convicted thief and forger who has spent much of her adult life in prison. Last week, as she and her friends were indicted on ten counts of assault (maximum...
...three hustled off to jail were Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda and Andres Figueroa Cordero−all members of the terrorist Nationalist party of Puerto Rico, the same group that made the attempt to storm Blair House and assassinate Harry Truman in 1950. A fourth member of the gang was picked up at a bus terminal. The four had left New York that morning, buying one-way railroad tickets in the expectation that they would lose their lives. In the woman's handbag, police found a penciled suicide note. "Before God, and the world," it said, "my blood claims...
...would take a near mad-man to issue the statement that Albizu did in reference to the House shooting. He called it an act of "sublime heroism," and added that Lolita Lebron and two nationalist "gentlemen of the race who accompanied her . . . have served notice on the United States engorged with its atomic bombs, that duty obliges it to respect independance of all nations; to respect the independance of Puerto Rico...
Albizu lives today a quarter of a mile from La Fortaleza, suspiciously forcing his sides to transact their business with him through a peephole in his apartment door. His name is still the rally word for Island and mainland nationalist fanatics. Lolita Lebron went to great pains to include the following note in her purse which was made public when she was arrested in the gallery of the House...
...Died. Lolita Sheldon Armour, 83, wealthy widow of Meat Packer J. Ogden Armour (son of Packing House Founder P. D. Armour); in Lake Forest, Ill. A queen of Chicago society through World War I, she fell on hard times as the collapse of the top-heavy meat market at war's end began melting away her husband's $150 million Armour-plated fortune. When he died in 1927, she inherited debts that ate up her personal fortune, forced her to move from sumptuous 846-acre "Mellody Farm" (now the site of Lake Forest Academy) to a modest Chicago...