Word: quito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Aurelio Mosquera Narvaez, 56, physician-President (the 21st) of the Republic of Ecuador, supporter of economic cooperation with the U. S.; after less than a year in office, of pneumonia, following an emergency operation; in Quito, Ecuador...
...Uncle Hans summed up a last desperate family hope when he anticipated that the cunning Americans would shear Ludwig's pelt, clip his horns. At 41, Bemelmans is a brilliant contradiction of family prophecy-a famed artist, author and illustrator of four children's classics* (Hansi, Quito Express et al.), and of two adult volumes (My War With the United States, Life Class) which rank with the most engaging of reminiscences. But Bemelmans is still a Katzenjammer kid. His fame, in fact, rests largely on the fact that he never outgrew his Katzenjammerism; it gives his drawings...
...experiences as a 19-year-old rookie in U. S. Army camps during the World War. That was his first book for grownups. Before that he had written and illustrated two juveniles, Hansi and The Golden Basket (he has since written two others: The Castle Number Q and Quito Express), but to adults he was known as a Vogue artist and as manager and decorator of Manhattan's small, expensive Hapsburg restaurant. With his second and much lengthier autobiographical volume, Life Class, Bemelmans again writes as perfect an equivalent of his ingenuously sophisticated drawings as James Thurber does...
...nations exchanged heated re-monstrances. The entire Cabinet of army officers, under Ecuador's military dictator, General G. Alberto Enriquez, resigned in a body to take their places in the army, were replaced last week with civilian ministers. All week mobs roamed the plazas of Quito, Ecuador's little capital, chanting "Down With Peru! Long Live Ecuador!" Peru's Foreign Minister Carlos Concha was calmer. "In Peru we have not yet lost our heads. Our country is in a process of prosperous development and the Government heads would have to be completely mad to think...
With three companions he took off from Guayaquil, Ecuador, rose 12,500 ft. to skim the bare mountain hump en route to Quito. Had Fritz Hammer climbed 15 ft. higher he would have cleared the granite peak. Instead he and his companions crashed to death. When found, the plane was strewn over half a mile of mountainside, the four bodies were 200 yards apart, all stripped naked by Indians...