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Venezuela: Rheumy, blue-spectacled Dictator Juan Vincente Gomez puppet President Juan Bautista Perez dedicated a white marble pantheon over the ashes of El Libertador. Dictator Gomez remained prudently on his heavily guarded model farm. Oldsters mourned the fact that Cenizo was no longer living to take part in the ceremony. Cenizo, as all Caracans remember, was a dog of uncertain parentage who for nearly ten years slept on the base of the Bolivar statue in the Plaza Bolivar, appointed himself its official guardian, grew fat and imperious on the bounty of cafe proprietors, was the only dog ever...
...Rockies. They have about 600 fathers, clerical students and lay brothers working under them. The Dominican Missions at Fall River, Mass, and Lewiston, Me. are under the jurisdiction of Very Rev. Alphonse Langlais of Montreal, provincial of Canada. Those at New Orleans are under Very Rev. Manuel Perez, vicar-provincial of the Philippines...
Grandson Millet procured the services of Paul Cazeau, artist, onetime house painter, whom he urged to a prolific aping of the manner of Grandfather Millet. To Artist Cazeau's canvases Grandson Millet then affixed his grandfather's initials. In Paris he discovered one Rudolfo Perez y Montalbo playing a guitar on the streets. Impressed by the man's name and aspect, Grandson Millet pressed him into_ service as a connoisseur. The guitarist's job was to attest solemnly, wordily that the works of Cazeau were, in truth, the works of "that luminous master of the Barbizon school?Jean Francois Millet...
...Havana, a baby born to blonde Senora Caridad Perez developed black eyes, dark skin, kinky hair. A baby born to brunette Bernardina Vega became blonde, blue-eyed. Senor Perez sued for divorce. Police investigated, found that the babies, born in the same hospital, had been bathed together, mixed. Senor Perez canceled his suit...
...Venezuela's old Commander-in-Chief moved quickly. Against the 50 (or 500) rash rebels he sent the troops of General Eustoquio Gomez, of General Pedro Maria Cardenas, of General Léon Jurado Felix Galavis and of General Juan Fernandez. To Acting President Juan Bautista Perez he sent the following telegram...