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...election day last week was orderly, the polling apparently honest. The result was a smashing victory for President Ramón Grau San Martín's left-wing regime, his Auténtico Party and Communist supporters. Grau's man, Manuel Fernandez Supervielle, won Havana's mayorship, the island's No. 2 political job. Most of the island's 125 new mayors would also be Grau men. Apparently enough Grau legislative candidates won to give the President, for the first time, a majority in Congress...
Solid Havana businessmen who lunch in the highceilinged, masculine La Florida, sugar millers, newly capped Manuel Cardinal Arteaña and the Catholic Church were notably unhappy this week. Ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista, who had waited, vampirelike, in Florida for signs of Grau disintegration, sighed in disappointment...
Sidney James Black (Psychology), Manuel Angel Garcia (General Studies), William Richard Stroh (Physics...
...Washington's Boiling Field, late that night, Manuel Roxas wearily ended a 45-hour trip, ducked interviewers, planted a kiss on the cheek of his Vassar-student daughter, Maria Rosario, and scooted off to bed. Next day, he began to scurry about the capital with the dynamic energy of a supersalesman. He relaxed, like a salesman, in smart Washington dining spots, with imperious gallantry kissed the hand of a singer while flashbulbs exploded with good will...
...come, too, to sell Manuel Roxas, and unsell the notion, widely propagated by U.S. Communists and proCommunists, that he carried a collaborationist taint from serving in a Jap puppet government. With him he brought the testimonial of General Douglas MacArthur, who said "consistently anti-Japanese . . . during . . . Bataan and Corregidor. . . . One of my most trusted and devoted officers." Then U.S. Navy Commander Charles ("Chick") Parsons gave conclusive evidence of Roxas' loyalty. He told of submarine trips he had made to contact Roxas during the Japanese occupation and to appoint him ringleader of U.S. espionage...