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Harrison Spangler has few close friends and few whole-souled enemies. A man of determined moderation, his unexceptional life has not even been exceptionally dull. A congenital Republican, he is also an Elk, a Mason, a Presbyterian, a Sigma Nu. He smokes cigarets absently, drinks Scotch socially, golfs casually...
...will manipulate the strings of Burma-at-war is Japan's "Special Ambassador" Renzo Sawada, who will stay on in Rangoon as permanent Ambassador from Japan. Burma's new Foreign Minister, Thakin Nu, blandly declared: "Burma is without experience regarding foreign policy. Consequently it is necessary to request advice from Ambassador Sawada, who is experienced in inter national foreign relations, and we have notified him of this fact. After conferring with Ambassador Sawada, domestic affairs, organization and selection of the foreign affairs personnel will be quickly decided upon." Burma's independence, Jap-style, was served up last...
Married. Dom Duarte Nuño, 35, Austrian-born-and-educated pretender to the throne of Portugal; and Princess Maria Francisca of Orléans and Braganza, 28, his remote cousin, great granddaughter of the late Dom Pedro II, second and last Emperor of Brazil; in Petropolis, Brazilian summer resort founded by her family. Dom Duarte has never lived in Portugal. His grandfather was Dom Miguel I, deposed as King of Portugal in 1834. Among the bride's wedding presents: a $15,000 aquamarine and platinum necklace...
...Nuño, a Spanish bandmaster, was brought to the Mexican capital by Santa Anna. When irate peons chased one-legged Santa Anna out in the revolution of 1855, Nuño left too. Tired out perhaps by a musician's lot in upsy-downsy Mexican politics, Nuño later settled down to the less turbulent life of Buffalo, N.Y. There he ran a small music academy in the 1870s and '80s. There, in 1906, he was buried...
Last week, the Mexican Government remembered Jaime Nuño, sent an army bomber (the first Mexican war plane to fly over U.S. soil in World War II) to fetch his remains from Buffalo. To the strains of a string quartet and a speech by Mayor Joseph J. Kelly, Composer Nuño's body was exhumed and started on its southward flight. In Mexico City a military guard of honor, 300 music conservatory students and a parade of thousands of school children waited to bear the coffin to Mexico's magnificent Monumento de la Revoluti...