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Captain Benito Castanedo was expelled from the Mexican Army last week. Facing a firing squad for a drunken, one-man revolt, he was saved at the last moment when his wife and six children appealed to President Manuel Avila Camacho. Their plea: he loved them so much that he had rebelled against a transfer which would have separated him from his family. His sentence commuted to public disgrace, he stood at the center of a circle of troops. An officer plucked off his buttons, tore off his triple bars. Then, to the roll of muffled drums, he marched around...
Stokowski had been engaged to conduct the Mexico Symphony Orchestra in a broadcast in memory of the torpedoing of the tanker Potrero del Llano, which led to Mexico's entry into the war. One of the numbers programmed was La Mort, whose composer is kindly, snowy-haired Manuel Ponce, a Mexican Indian whose Estrellita is one of the most popular songs of all time...
Once she spanked one Manuel Cubos Batres, nicknamed "EI Reloj" (The Clock), who was accustomed to demand a minute of silence for any worthy cause. When El Reloj invoked silence against Ubico, La Maciste seized him in a public park, put him over her knees, and shouted, "Now you will cease to be The Clock!" Spanked and shamed, The Clock was silenced forever...
Herbert Hoover made him Chief of Staff in 1930; Franklin Roosevelt kept him on for an extra year-the first Chief of Staff to serve more than the usual four-year tour of duty. In 1935, Manuel Quezon invited him to reorganize the Philippine Army; in 1941, after retirement from the U.S. Army, he was recalled to head American-Filipino forces in the Far East. He commanded the forces on Bataan until ordered to Australia. Lukewarm toward air power before War II, he changed his mind quick to work hand in glove with his air chief, Lieut. General George...
...anxious throngs who crowded into Mexico City's Palacio Nacional this week, bland President Manuel Avila Camacho displayed a two-inch swath burned in the jacket of his grey-and-red striped suit, a similar powder burn in his white shirt beneath. The burns were over his heart...