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Burly Tenor Ramon (Otello) Vinay was in a sweat. A Chilean trained for Italian and French opera, he had worked hard for over a year to huff himself into a German-style Heldentenor, and he was all set to sing his first Tristan, with Kirsten Flagstad as Isolde. San Franciscans (and Metropolitan Opera General Manager Rudolf Bing, who sorely needs a successor to Lauritz Melchior) were all set to hear him. But a fortnight ago, with debut day almost at hand, Tenor Vinay was bogged down in Chile. A stubborn Santiago impresario refused to let him leave the country until...
Most Filipinos applauded Quirino's candor. But the next day the President decided to postpone a much-needed housecleaning of the Philippine army top brass. The postponement so infuriated able Defense Secretary Ruperto Kangleon that he resigned. Quirino replaced him with 40-year-old Ramon Magsaysay, a staff officer with the U.S. cavalry during World...
Died. Rex Ingram*(real name: Rex Hitchcock), 58, Irish-born director of such famed silent movies as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (which made Rudolph Valentino a star) and The Prisoner of Zenda (which made Ramon Novarro a star); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood...
Argentina's energetic little Finance Minister, Ramon Cereijo, bounced aboard his FAMA plane at New York's Idlewild Airport one morning last week, and flew homeward with gladsome news. Argentina had been promised $200 million in U.S. Government and private bank credits. A formal announcement was expected within a few days...
...negotiators, not entirely convinced that Argentina could handle and pay back a loan of that size, argued that $65 million would be enough to restore Argentine credit. For the moment no decision was reached; the dickering continued. But it was a good bet that before Argentine Treasury Minister Ramon Cereijo left for Buenos Aires this week, Argentina would be down on Ex-Im's books for a sizable U.S. credit...