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Died. José Pardo y Barreda, 83, twice President of Peru (1904-08, 1915-19), son of Manuel Pardo, the nation's first civilian President; in Lima, Peru...
...bull caught up with Manolete (Manuel Rodríguez), Spain's No. 1 matador (TIME, July 21), at a benefit performance. His horn bit three inches into Manolete's calf, "destroying a muscle," the doctors said. But the great man stayed right in there until he had dispatched the beast, whose ears, as a token of popular esteem, were presented to him in the infirmary...
Before the Bull. On the last day (memorable for big, tough bulls), Manolete (real name: Manuel Rodriguez) himself appeared, icily calm in a white & gold costume. To him, rather than any other, is due the present revival of the art of the corrida. He gets as much as 150,000 pesetas ($13,700) for a single performance, and his Mexican partner, Carlos Arruza, gets almost as much. This pair has collared so many important fights and so much of the big Mexican bullfight money that they are engaged in a squabble with the Spanish Bullfighters Syndicate, headed by Juanito Belmonte...
With the rebels either dead or safely back in the stockade, Calapan joined the rest of the Philippines in a gala round of oratory, parades and holiday cockfights in honor of the first anniversary of Philippine independence. In Manila, President Manuel Roxas discussed his Government's political and economic progress. Said Roxas: "Organized resistance has almost ceased." To give force to his words, a battalion of Hukbalahaps, pro-Communist guerrilla fighters who have waged constant war against the government, marched past the reviewing stand...
Once Smoky tried to telephone Chiang Kaishek; on another occasion he tried to talk to Manuel Avila Camacho, then President of Mexico. Last week Smoky got the urge again, picked up the phone in his Oelwein, Iowa hotel, and said: "Get me the Kremlin in Moscow." Four hours later, on a line which crackled and buzzed, he was put through to Moscow...