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Buenos Aires citizens had heard about such artistic and philosophic vagaries from Dadaism and surrealism to existentialism, yawned at the Madists, and that was not to be borne. This week the Madists were across the Rio de la Plata estuary in Uruguay, seeking a new public. In Montevideo's Salon Aiape, visitors gaped and grinned at sculpture of strangely articulated sticks of wood by Giyulia Kosice (see cut), an irregularly framed abstract painting by Arden Quinn, a collection of odd pieces of paper covered with gibberish...
Over every coffee table-from the politicos' favorite Tupi-Namba café on Montevideo's palm-graced Plaza Independencia to the café in the Hotel Oriental in cattle-raising Treinta y Tres-the talk was of elections. On Nov. 24, Uruguayans would vote for everything from dog-catcher to President...
Uruguay's President Gabriel Terra, recovering from an assassin's bullet, urged him not to ride through the streets of Montevideo, F.D.R. burst out laughing. "I can't see where I run any risks," he exclaimed, poking his fellow-president in the ribs. "You are the president they...
...British cruiser Ajax dropped anchor last week at Haifa. In the first winter of the war against Hitler, the Ajax had been a symbol of hope and freedom when she and two other light British warcraft harried the German pocket battleship Graf Spee to self-destruction off Montevideo. She was not that sort of symbol last week to hundreds of desperate Jews who stared at her from impounded refugee ships in Haifa harbor...
Chronic work-shys at once cleared out of the capital. Even when some crept back, the average cop hardly broke a leg to nab a candidate. Most Uruguayans had forgotten all about the scheme when last week Montevideo's alert El Diario turned up the fact that their hobo college, with a staff of 46, had shrunk to six scholars. Hurriedly the police began beating the boondocks for prospective pupils...