Word: mexicali
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexicali Ruse. In any case, as the committee knew beforehand, neither Mrs. Roosevelt nor anybody else on its "prominent persons" list had actually been of any help to Eisler. He got into the U.S. late in 1939 on a visa obtained from a "sleepy" consul at Mexicali, Mexico. The consul, Wyllis Myers, whom the committee did not bother to subpoena, issued the visa without bothering to check his files on Eisler...
...irreverent New York Daily News suggested: "Why not put the UNO world capital in the northwest corner of Mexico . . . somewhere in the neighborhood of the famous Mexican towns of Tijuana, Agua Caliente, Mexicali (Mexicali Rose, I Love You), and Ensenada? . . . [This] would be close to Hollywood, through whose portals pass the most beautiful blondes, brunettes and redheads. The younger and handsomer of the UNO male secretaries could spend alternate weekends in Hollywood and Mexico, entertaining and being entertained...
Married. Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco, 21 ; and Leopold Antoni Stokowski, sixtyish;*he for the third time, she for the second; one day after her divorce from Pasquale ("Pat") di Cicco; in Mexicali, Mexico...
...main importance of the new network is that it opens a vast field of listeners to U.S. broadcasts. From Mexicali to Cape Horn there are roughly about three and a half million receiving sets, only half of which can pick up short wave. In the past, listeners to the shortwave sets received all the attention of Axis and U.S. broadcasts. Now CBS programs reach South American listeners regularly over their own stations (La Cadena has 46 long-wave, 30 short-wave outlets in Latin America). Each station is contract-bound to present at least one hour of network programs daily...
...seems not to mind him at all-which distributes the positive and negative reactions in exactly the right places." That Bing Crosby's voice is America's favorite depends upon the fact that it not only sounds good, but that Crosby sings every song-whether it is Mexicali Rose or Silent Night, Holy Night-as though he felt it was the best song ever written...