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...Canal, its emotional antagonism to the U. S. has diminished with the notable rise of U. S. imports from Colombia, which has made the U. S. its best market for coffee, petroleum and bananas. At the head of its Havana delegation is Foreign Minister Luis López de Mesa...
Whoever the Angel of Ava was, he was someone who knew the neighborhood. How else could he have known about J. E. Mackey, storekeeper of neighboring Rome, who had gone to Costa Mesa, Calif, to live? Mackey was the next to get a $100 surprise. The next, Mrs. Henry S. Wilson, another widow of an Ava merchant, straightway ran across the street to show her friend old Dr. Jasper Leonard Gentry her check for $50. Said she: "You'll be next to get one of these...
...Born in Pennsylvania, he never went to college, served for nine years before the War as publicity counsel for Bell Telephone Co. During the War he headed Liberty Loan drives. After it, he became an explorer, discovered dinosaur tracks in Arizona and a primitive Indian village. ''Lost Mesa," was made a chief of the Navaho tribe with a certificate written in human blood to prove it. Six years ago he took as his second wife Paulina Stearns, daughter of a wealthy Ludington, Mich, lumber family. In 1933 he went to southwestern Oregon for the first time...
...Petrified Forest. What happens to Leslie Howard and a gang of desperadoes in the Black Mesa...
Starting off with the first situation and carrying the second to an odd conclusion, Playwright Sherwood has magnificently presented one tumultuous afternoon and evening in a roadside service station in the far West. Apparently just as much at home in the Black Mesa Bar-B-Q as he was in Hannibal's tent (The Road to Rome) or post-War Austria (Reunion in Vienna), Playwright Sherwood has given a humorous and dramatic three-dimensional panorama of the hamburg and gas-peddling Maples, their young, ex-fullback helper, the rich and insufferable Chisholms who drive up in their Duesenberg limousine...