Word: ramirez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barter. In El Paso, pleading guilty to stealing, forging, and cashing a Government check belonging to her tenant, Mrs. Jesus Rodarte Ramirez insisted that she was only collecting the rent...
...Warner Bros, unit now filming The Old Man in Cuba, borrowed a tape-recorder man, a cameraman and a pressagent. Soon, Papa was set up in his favorite local bistro, La Terraza Café, on the harbor of Cojimar, a fishing village near Havana. With him sat grizzled Miguel Ramirez, 68, named in the stories as Papa's real Old Man. In colorfully fractured Spanish, Papa drew from Ramirez an admission: "It's all a lie." Next day Havana's Excelsior grudgingly headlined: HEMINGWAY DENIES HE MADE ANY PROMISES...
Died. General Arturo Rawson, 67, onetime provisional (for 48 hours in 1943) President of Argentina, leader (with General Pedro Ramirez) of the 1943 military revolt against fascist-minded President Ramon Castillo which unexpectedly started Juan Peron on his rise to power, part organizer of the abortive 1945 anti-Peron revolt; of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires...
...solid citizens of Hadleyville are not so civic-minded. When the marshal tries to deputize a posse against Gunman Miller, everyone in Hadleyville finds excuses. Even the marshal's Quaker wife walks out on him because she is against killing. In Ramirez' saloon, they are laying odds that the marshal is dead five minutes after Miller gets off the noon train. Left high & dry in a town paralyzed by fear and morally bankrupt, the sweating marshal has to face Miller and three of his fellow desperadoes alone. Around this dramatic situation is built that Hollywood rarity: a taut...
Behind the Woodpile. The six defendants protested that the boys were exaggerating. But under crossexamination, they conceded that most of the details were true. Guard Ramirez admitted he had used a blackjack. Guards Terry Quinn and Albert Allen admitted that they had dragged two boys behind a woodpile and taken turns lashing them with a fan belt. Even Superintendent Ridgway confessed he used the whip. "But none of the boys that I know of limped after they were whipped." Besides, said the defense, the law allows "reasonable corporal punishment," and Fort Grant is certainly reasonable...