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Died. Edward Pringle Lowry, 43, second secretary of the U. S. Embassy at Mexico City, soldier of fortune in Philippine and World War campaigns, major in the U. S. Army and in the Persian Gendarmery, colonel in the Lithuanian army; of a 40-ft. fall in the patio of the American Club, Mexico City...
Dynamic, warm, lavish, Byoir is an instinctive mixer. Mornings he may be found in the patio of the Hotel Sevilla-Biltmore, habitually hatless, armed with a malacca stick, buttonholing or being buttonholed by this statesman, that sportsman. Afternoons find him on the sands of La Playa beach; midnight, in the two-story structure at Industria 77, erstwhile Casa Publica, now the plant of the Post and Telegram...
Organized Business, as represented by 3,000 members of the Chamber of Commerce of the U. S., crowded into the great assembly hall, overflowed into the flowery patio of the organization's Washington headquarters last week to battle Organized Agriculture, as represented by the Federal Farm Board. A growing grudge Business had been nurturing against the Board's wheat policy came to a head: Was it right, politically, economically, governmentally, for the Board to use U. S. money to finance farm cooperatives, to buy and sell wheat in the open market, to compete with private industry? (TIME, April...
...labors of the prodigious Lope Felix de Vega (1562-1635) who wrote 520 plays, has been upheld in a more credible fashion by the Quinteros. Between 1897 and 1912 they wrote more than 80 of their sly, kindly, classically re strained dramas. Among the most popu lar: El Patio, Las Flares, El genio alegre, Malvaloca...
...Goya. In the Mexican National Academy he studied painting and drew rude portraits of his masters. They told him he could not draw and sent him away. After this he worked as a newspaper artist, followed a regiment in the Carranza-Villa revolution. As a syndicate worker, he covered patio walls, stairways and crypts with enormous frescoes of a beardless Christ bearing a great cross, Saint Francis of Assisi bowing to kiss a leper, caricatures of bourgeoise ladies and their bloated escorts trampling up to Heaven on the bodies of peons. These pictures were especially mutilated...