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Doubt. The Philippine government warily called in a handwriting expert to examine the signature. The expert, matching it with a five-year-old Taruc signature, pronounced it phony. But Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay, boss of the government's fight against the Huks, was not so sure. Once before, the Free Press had carried a letter from Huk Leader William Pomeroy, former American G.I. who is now a captive in Manila. It had proved to be genuine. In recent months, Taruc had shown signs of wanting to talk peace with Magsaysay...
...dalliance discovered that his women friends were many and obliging. In time, the roster of Philippine officials indebted to Pedro de la Pena reached throughout army headquarters, the Senate and Manila's city hall. There was one official, however, whose acquaintance Pedro scrupulously avoided: Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay...
Slow Burn. In Colombes, France, Fernand Bria stabbed his friend Ramon Coll in the chest with a hunting knife, admitted to police that he had been brooding for some time over Coil's seduction of his wife 27 years...
Verdi: Otello (excerpts) (Ramon Vinay, tenor; Eleanor Steber, soprano; Frank Guarrera, baritone; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fausto Cleva conducting; Columbia, 2 sides LP). This anthology includes the best duets and arias of Verdi's best opera. Vinay defends his title as the finest Moor of the day, and Steber makes a pure-voiced Desdemona; Guarrera is not malignant enough to do Iago full justice. Recording: excellent...
...lunch of poached eggs and toast, Soprano Steber turned up at her Met dressing room and began costuming herself as Desdemona. She added a waist-long switch to her blonde hair, got into a "long negligee sort of thing," and was ready to face the volatile Moor (burly Tenor Ramon Vinay) onstage by the 2 p.m. curtain...