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...Qui Vive. At week's end, Somoza was still on the alert. Night & day his airplanes patrolled the sky over Managua, and the tough Guardia had been withdrawn to positions on the hill. Whispered Managuans: "They're coming, they're coming soon." Who? Why, old General Emiliano Chamorro, of course', who at 76 was about to embark on his 17th revolution...
Bach: Sacred Arias (Carol Brice, contralto, with the Columbia Broadcasting Concert Orchestra, Daniel Saidenberg conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). The Agnus Dei and Qui Sedes from the B Minor Mass, and two arias from the Magnificat, warmly sung by a Negro of considerable talent, who is not yet a Marian Anderson. Recording: good...
...Buenos Aires' broad, stately Avenida Alvear last week, municipal workers in faded blue denim wearily hammered together a new temporary grandstand. "What is this for?" asked a reporter. "The July 9 Independence celebration? The arrival of Chile's President?" "Quién sabe?" answered a carpenter. "Perhaps for that. Perhaps for the return of the Sñora from her voyage. Ah, sñor, you have read of this voyage? A miracle, is it not so? Surely, all the world must know...
...both towns had Communist mayors, but they got different treatment from their bosses. Little Eugeni played the Duce: "Qui comando io!" (Here, I command!) were his favorite words as he pounded a wobbly table. When he decided to dismiss lower officials like the village doctor, he wrote simply: "Dear Dr. Pirro, I have the honor to inform you you have been fired, (signed) Eugeni." He also fined Village Priest Don Vittorio for collecting money for the harvest festival without his authorization...
...weeks ago came the electrifying news that the Communists in Rome had voted for the Lateran Pact. In Anticoli, Eugeni crowed cruelly, guffawed to speechless Don Vittorio: "Ha! Now you've got to work with me, just the way Togliatti has made De Gasperi work with him! Qui comando io!" In Roviano, wise old Scacchi said to his village priest, Don Mario Sargenti: "Now we must work together-I like all workers of the spade, you like all workers of the robe." This week in both towns another political party seems to be following the Socialists into oblivion...