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...Other eleven by the doctor's reckoning: Princess Etienne du Beaumont, Mme Arturo Lopez Perez, Princess Karam of Kapurthala, Lady Charles Cavendish (nee Adele Astaire), Princess Guy de Faucigny-Lucinge, Mrs. Harrison Williams, Mme Jean Ralli, Countess Khuen Hedervary, Comtesse de Montgomery, Mme Andre Dubonnet, Duchess de Chaulnes...
...evidence to make the abortive coup d'état one of the best documented revolts in Latin-American history. Revealed was a list of 12,000 alleged financial contributors to the rising. Among them were Santiago's Ford dealer, Carlos Orrego, and a University student named Mario Perez who had planned to study engineering in the U. S., had spent his money on guns instead of books. Listed for assassination were Lion Alessandri, his family, Gustavo Ross, rightist candidate for President in next October's election (he is supported by the President who cannot by Chilean...
Most popular Calypso singer is The Lion (real name: Hubert Raphael Charles), a young black buck who was taken to Manhattan in 1936 by Ralph Perez, successively a Calypso specialist for Columbia and Decca. The Lion, however, proved the most censorable of the Calypsonians, all of whose records Mr. Perez must submit to British officials before they may be sold in Trinidad. The Lion's share of the 1937 carnival was his song Netty-Netty, voted the most popular by the public, but banned on the island. On sale in the U. S., its words are allegedly unprintable...
...gave him a useful reputation. He got to know the Indians in the village: the master of a pump station which pumped water through the jungle to a railroad depot; the pump master's wife, an aristocrat because she owned pots and pans; a young, handsome Indian named Perez; the Garcia family-old Garcia with a silky beard and a taste for music, his young wife, his eldest son, Manuel, home on a holiday from the Texas oil fields, his youngest son, Carlos...
...shiny shoes as a present from Texas. Carlos, used to running barefoot, slipped on a narrow bridge and fell into the river. When the boy was missed, the women wailed, the men put a consecrated candle on a piece of wood, let it float to midstream. Where it stopped, Perez dived and brought up the body. They took it to the Garcias' little hut, dressed it in a shoddy blue sailor-suit, put a crown of gold paper on its head...