Word: ramone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was a second-rate band on the air, beating out popular tunes from a supper club. Suddenly the announcer broke in with a "flash" about Martian explosions hurtling towards earth. Then listeners were returned to "the music of Ramon Raquello and Star Dust." There was a second flash and a third, and soon some 32 million people were hearing about an invasion of grey monsters who glistened like wet leather jackets and were attacking New Jersey with death rays. Thus on Halloween of 1938 did Orson Welles don a sheet and say "Boo!" to the radio audience with...
When TIME Correspondent Jim Bell interviewed Philippine President Carlos Garcia last May, two months after Ramon Magsaysay's funeral, Garcia made it perfectly clear that he intended to seek the presidency on his own this November. Last week Correspondent Bell, back in Manila, spent three hours with the President while Garcia chain-smoked Chesterfields and described the political maneuvering that brought him the Nacionalista Party nomination for President. For the lively story of how he did it, with delegates and decolletage, see FOREIGN NEWS, Here Comes Charley...
When mild little Carlos Garcia took over as President of the Philippines after the plane-crash death of the nation's beloved Ramon Magsaysay last March, Garcia announced, in a paraphrase of Harry Truman, that he felt as if he had been hit by a ton of bricks.* Like Truman, he was a faithful member of an old political machine, was picked as Vice President on straight party considerations, and seemed no man to fill his predecessor's larger shoes. Charley Garcia, 60, was expected to serve out the remaining nine months of Ramon Magsaysay's term...
Married. Linda Garcia, 22, daughter (and only child) of Philippine President Carlos P. Garcia, who took over from the late Ramon Magsaysay in March; and Fernando Campos, 24, a Manila lawyer; in Manila...
...seven weeks since President Ramon Magsaysay, the Philippines' national hero, died in a plane crash (TIME. March 25), no single politico has emerged who seems a worthy successor. But with convention time only two months away and general elections scheduled for November, many a hopeful was whirling about the cities and barrios last week shaking hands, kissing babies and listening to that old siren song, the will of the people...