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Clement B. Wood Jr. '47, ex-Lampoon president and winner of last year's Dana Reed prize for undergraduate writing, has teamed with John J. Carroll '49 to write the book and lyrics for this year's Hasty Pudding Club show, tentatively entitled "Forever Peon." Anthony Bonner '49 will provide the music for the production, which opens March 11 at the Hasty Pudding clubhouse...
Next to the ox that pulls his plow, the Mexican peon's most valued possession is his wistful little burro. Last week, the sturdy little beast that carries the nation's backland freight, causes many of its automobile accidents, adorns its literature and enriches its profanity, supplied the theme for the song leading Mexico's hit parade. It was called My Little Burro Doesn't Want to Go, and it was written by a young man named Ventura Romero who had never ridden a burro in his life...
...even the peon himself, jolting along on the burro's poop deck, muttered...
Back into Uniform. Siqueiros next turned up in Los Angeles, where he painted a mural showing a Mexican peon bound to a cross surmounted by an American eagle. He was promptly deported. Then the Spanish civil war broke out, and Siqueiros got back into uniform with something like relief. Fighting still came naturally; he commanded a motorized brigade in the battles of Caballon, Guadalupe and La Granja, and rose to be a division commander just before the end. Back home, he was welcomed at first, then thrown in jail for eight months on suspicion of taking part in the first...
Strange reports had come from the workouts at Belmont Park. The bred-in-Argentina halfbrothers, Endeavor II and Ensueno, were being ridden without saddles, their peon exercise boys astride nothing more comforting than white sheets. Clockers and rival trainers were impressed: those dark bays were moving faster in their morning trials than many good horses travel during their afternoon races...