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FRESHMAN FENCING--Minor Numerals 1953--Clemens C. Beels, Richard L. Bushman, Stephen VanD. Chandler, Matthew Cushing, Richard E. Ford, Manuel G. Herrera, Jan E. Jertson, Robert T. McConaughy, George N. McNair, Jr., Edmund R. Schroeder, Harry K. Ziel, and Douglas Sheard, Manager...
...years that his musicians know just what he wants from them, he played a glowing, smoothly powered performance of the Mozart Symphony No. 40. He showed off the colors of his orchestra's palette with a new razzle-dazzle piece called Magic Manhattan by his Paris friend Manuel Rosenthal (now conductor of the Seattle Symphony), finished with the spirited dances from Falla's Three-Cornered Hat. Even the Manhattan critics conceded that the sensitivity and sonority of St. Louis' band measured up mighty close with the East's big three: the Boston, the Philadelphia...
Some weeks ago, Bolivian Senator Tomás Manuel Elio, who by a strange coincidence is also legal adviser for the Patiño interests, introduced an amendment to the divorce law. When it came up for discussion last week, the President of Bolivia's Chamber of Deputies rose gravely to read a cable from Paris asking that the amendment be pigeonholed. "I do not ask you, Mr. President, to take any action contrary to law," the cable read, "but presently the only divorce suit ... at stake is the one brought against me ..." It was signed Cristina de Borb...
Winner of the lonely election was Elpidio ("Pidiong") Quirino, who became President last year after the death of Manuel Roxas. Breezy and genial, Quirino tries, at his meetings with reporters, to act like President Truman at White House press conferences, plugs his own version of the Fair Deal for the Philippines. His big selling point is his friendship with the U.S. (he wangled an invitation to visit the U.S. last summer). Filipinos generally regard him as personally honest, but much of his administration is corrupt and he is surrounded by politicians who cannot resist a chance to make a fast...
Last week the official commission, headed by Manuel Gual Vidal, Minister of Education, made a bone-chilling announcement. "The documents and copper disc inscription," it stated flatly, "are both false . . . Taking into consideration the examination of the human bones [which turned out to be those of five persons, one of them a woman and at least two children], this commission concludes that there are no scientific proofs to permit confirmation that the remains are those of the Emperor Cuauhtemoc...