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...York, police reported that they had found quantities of Communist literature in the Brooklyn apartment of Rafael Miranda, one of the four would-be assasins...
...help Heiress Lizabeth Scott take possession of the island, Cabaret Performers Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis get tangled up with treasure-hunting mobsters and perambulating zombies. When he is not being locked in a trunk or imprisoned in a haunted castle's torture chamber, Jerry also imitates Carmen Miranda, and Dean sings (I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine, San Domingo). Interesting bit players: Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. For Comedian Hope, Scared Stiff must seem like very old stuff. It was called The Ghost Breakers in 1940, when Hope played the lead...
...Southwest, witches still flourish as hardily as desert cactus, and fear of their dark power is as real as the daily struggle for a living. For years there has been no more powerful bruja on either side of the border than sly, dark-haired Maria Concepcion Estrella Miranda, leading practitioner of the occult in dusty Guadalupe, Ariz. (pop. 850). Few in Guadalupe did not believe that she could cause sickness or death simply by sticking bobby-pins with little doughball heads into any of the 200-odd photographs she kept secreted in her middle room...
Then one day Maria Miranda-for it was Maria herself, as it turned out, who had cursed Josefina-sneaked into Chavez' house, shrieked at Josefina: "You will never see again!" and fled. Next morning Joe's wife was blind again. Fruitlessly, Joe took her to witches in Tucson, in Nogales, in Pitiquito, in Sonora and Cavorca, Mexico. Finally Joe went humbly to Maria herself; in her flyblown parlor, with its green altar and its saints' pictures (some laid face down with coins placed against their lips to protect Maria's clients from gossip), Joe begged...
...British trade bargainer who had been bested in a deal by Miguel Miranda, Argentina's postwar economic czar, once said of him: "He is a trader, always was a trader, and at the end will try to trade with the Almighty to get himself into heaven." After World War II, when Europe was on its uppers, Miranda won dubious fame for his country by charging hungry European countries skyscraping prices for wheat and meat, and using the profits to finance Juan Perón's first five-year plan. Ousted from power in a feud with Evita...