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...visitors had better ponies but considerably less experience than the white-shirted U.S. veterans. But at any rate, Mexico's polo-playing President Manuel Avila Camacho was satisfied that his hand-picked team of brothers-José, Alejandro, Guillermo and Gabriel Gracida-had been beaten by the best team the U.S. could muster. The scores...
Alfonso Gonzalez Pardo, great-grandson of ex-President Manuel Pardo of Peru, spent a night in a Manhattan jail for lack, purely momentary, of $50,000 bail. Wife Ann, an ex-Powers model suing him for $4,000-a-month alimony, had him arrested just to keep him on the scene. He had already sent about $600,000 home to Peru, she charged, and she was afraid he was going there himself. Said he: "I have no immediate plans, so I will stay here a while...
...show was sponsored by Mexico's culture-conscious President Manuel Avila Camacho, who last year decreed an annual national prize for arts and sciences. (1945's prize went to an author, rotund little Dr. Alfonso Reyes, for his Criticism in the Athenian Age.) This year's 20,000 pesos ($4,140) will be awarded to an artist, plus 5,000 pesos each for the best example of painting, engraving, sculpture and architecture on exhibition...
...Claverly Hall room, the prospective Ph.D. has hung a plaque of the subject of his thesis, Jose Manuel Balmaceda, President of Chile from 1886-91, given to him by the son of that "great hero of the people of Chile...
Since war's end fierce Hukbalahap gangs have tried, with the same guerrilla tactics they used against the Japs, to enforce ex-President Osmena's decree dividing crops 60-40 in favor of the peasant. But new President Manuel Roxas refused to com promise with revolt. He sent in 5,000 military police, who soon had the "Huks" under control...