Word: rafael
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rafael, Calif...
...Communications and Public Works, is an ardent Leftist and widely regarded as the man who will wear the Cardenas silks in the race. He offered to hold a banquet for his two leading rivals, conservative General Manuel Avila Camacho, who resigned as Minister of National Defense, and moderate General Rafael Sánchez Tapia, resigned commander of the Federal Military Zone. The feast would show the country that the three could be political rivals and still good friends. Unfortunately, his opponents did not feel the same way about it. They declined. Candidate Múgica decided to give the banquet...
...cheaters on 25 adventurous years in music As a boy he played the piano in a nickelodeon. University of Pennsylvania turned him out a chemist, but piano-pounding in a Harrisburg hotel offered better money. From then on he stuck to music, studied under Organist Charles Maskill and Pianist Rafael Joseffy, applied this talent to writing vaudeville songs, editing for a Philadelphia music publisher, and running his own player piano roll company. He used to pound rolls out by the yard, under some 20 different names-Preston Dupre for the classics, Cyril Crossing for tangos, other Frenchy names for "saluts...
...Rafael Sabatini's 34th adventure story, The Sword of Islam (Houghton Mifflin, $2.50), compares favorably with his best work (Scaramouche, Captain Blood). As dramatic as Italian opera without music, it is as ornately composed as Italian pastry. Laid in the 16th Century, it concerns one Prospero Adorno, wide-browed, slim-hipped soldier-poet, who first appears as commander of a naval squadron blockading Genoa. He changes sides several times, several times buys and talks his way out of captivity, is dishonored, vindicated, at last makes mincemeat of the Moslems, wins beautiful Gianna. Who fights whom is immaterial-the main...
Engaged. Ellen Wilson McAdoo de Onate, 22 (who last April was divorced from Spanish Cinemactor Rafael Lopez de Onate), fourth of the five daughters of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo (see p. 25) by the first two of his three wives; to William A. Hinshaw, 22, French horn player for the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra; in Los Angeles...