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Spanish names made tragic news: Madrid reported that Mario, son of the late, best-selling Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse), had been sentenced to twelve years in prison on a charge of having once been a Mason. He might get a commutation: he is paralyzed, deaf and nearly blind...
...junta that took power in last October's democratic revolution meant to do something to improve Venezuela's food supply. The junta handed the problem to dynamic ex-advertising man Mario Garcia Arocha, president of the Government Supply Commission. By last week Arocha's plans were getting results...
When young (36) Mario Lasso was Mexican consul general in Chicago, by appointment of his uncle, Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, he took personal care of tourist-card applications filed by particularly pretty girls. That was how he met his second and present wife, tiny, blonde Flora Dancy, 24, of Clinton, Ind., whom he brought back to Mexico last fall when he returned to run Uncle Ezequiel's presidential campaign. Says Flora of husband Mario: "Yes, a great wolf...
Then Ezequiel Padilla called in reporters. He showed them a penciled note allegedly smuggled out from the imprisoned Mario. In the note Mario repudiated the confession, and said it had been wrung from him only after he had been starved, threatened with a pistol, and "beaten up like in the time of the Inquisition." Said Padilla: "The darkest chapter in Mexico's history of iniquities." Said Secret Police sub-Chief Jesùs Galindo of Mario's blast: ''Nothing but lies...
Herbie Neal, who has played nearly every position for Coach Adolph Samborski's summer squad, started yesterday's tilt; but was shuttled over to third base in the second after he had issued four consecutive passes. Vince Moravec replaced him and squelched the rally by striking out Mario Insant and causing Chuch Espanet to fly to center...