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Except for the President's palace, the most famous address in Chile was once 49 Doce de Febrero, Santiago. Here was the center of Chile's intellectual life, the home of a slight, courtly figure known as "Don J.T." Until his death in 1930, Jose Toribio Medina reigned as Chile's cultural grandee, dispensing advice and talk to all who came to see him. Scholars and celebrities flocked to him, and it was even a tradition for foreign diplomats to pay their respects soon after they arrived in town...
Last week, for the 100th anniversary of his birth, statesmen and scholars were once again paying Don J.T. their respects. In the auditorium of the Pan American Union in Washington, D.C., 120 gathered to discuss the vast accomplishments of his many careers. There was Medina the historian, Medina the bibliographer, Medina the numismatist, as well as Medina the critic, the Cervantista, the lexicographer, geographer, anthropologist, printer and archeologist. It took the Union's visitors three days to cover the ground...
...speech to the Chattanooga Bar Association, Manhattan's Federal Judge Harold R. Medina recalled some of the pressure he endured during the 1949 trial of the eleven U.S. Communist leaders in Manhattan. It began, said the judge, about a month after Defense Secretary James Forrestal jumped to his death from a hospital window. Somehow the Communists learned that Medina had a fear of high places and capitalized on this weakness. They plagued him with pickets carrying placards reading "Medina will fall like Forrestal," and cryptic letters and anonymous phone calls repeating again & again the word jump. Said Medina...
Judge Harold R. Medina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .LL.D...
Syracuse University awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters to Harry T. Levin '33, professor of English, at its 97th Commencement yesterday. Judge Harold R. Medina received an honorary degree at the same ceremony...