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...Balkans as a State Department coordinator for the U.S. Information Service ("As if anyone could coordinate the Balkans"). He was later TIME Bureau Chief in Buenos Aires, where he spent two days "in one of Juan Peron's jails for his stories on the confiscation of La Prensa (TIME, March 12, ?951). In his talks the thing that impressed him most, said Shea, was how well informed his listeners were. Said he: "They are certainly more savvy than when I was in school. There is a healthy interest in, and curiosity about, foreign affairs. This is due, I suppose...
Died. Ezequiel Pedro Paz, 81, editor and publisher (1898-1943) of Argentina's La Prensa; in Buenos Aires. A towering, pince-nezed aristocrat, he made the newspaper founded by his father into one of the world's great dailies, equaled only by the New York Times in international coverage. He wrote his own, firmly righteous editorials, personally tongue-lashed employees who fell below his lofty standards and exiled them from the office for a week (with full pay). Editor Paz was so sure that La Prensa could never publish an untruth that ten years after it erroneously reported...
...York, printed in Chicago. (To set the magazine, TIME Inc. teletypesetters were sent to school to learn Spanish.; Part of the bilingual staff is made up of writers and journalists from Latin American countries, including Alberto Cellario and Leonor Villanueva, ex-editors on the staff of La Prensa, the once great Argentine daily taken over by Peron. Other Latin American staffers: Walter Montenegro, one of Bolivia's leading newspaper columnists: Roberto Esquenazi-Mayo, winner of Cuba's 1951 National Literary Prize; Maruxa Nunez de Villa-vicencio, former fashion editor of Havana's daily. El Mundo; Ramon Frausto...
Following a funeral for five guerrilla-slain policemen, some 200 well-coached civilian "rioters" sacked and burned the headquarters of two Liberal newspapers, one of them El Tiempo (circ. 180,000), Latin America's most distinguished newspaper since the destruction of Buenos Aires' La Prensa. The attackers destroyed the newspaper's advertising and circulation records, wrecked its oak-paneled editorial offices and gutted its pressroom...
...statue has long been the subject of hot criticism. Many thought, as the newspaper La Prensa said, that the monument "interfered with the architectural ensemble of the cathedral and the cardinal's palace." Others argued that the sword-brandishing statue was "too warlike a figure to stand in front of a church." And Peru's inarticulate Indians never saw any reason to glorify the man they still consider no better than a heroic butcher. But the church-front spot for the statue also had its defenders, who thought it a "commanding position from which he could seem...