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...come out of the holes made by our bullets. That's what I'd do, by God, that's what I'd do. Then . . . you know what I'd do? I'd give the motor everything it had, and I'd ram the Goddamn troop-carrying aircraft, that's what...
...important people were there, but nothing happened as it was supposed to. It was the 90th anniversary of the signing of Argentina's articles of confederation, and Buenos Aires' Governor Rodolfo Moreno, who dearly loves a spectacle, had invited Acting President Ramón S. Castillo, all provincial governors and many another bigwig to re-enact the ceremony. To the tiny town of San Nicolás de los Arroyos traveled the presidential train, complete with what Buenos Aires correspondents nicknamed "the candidates' coach." Aspirants in next year's presidential elections, including longtime Foreign Minister Carlos...
...some interesting things to say on their little instruments; and there were Max Kaminsky, the stubby trumpet player who is right in his element in front of a small band, and semi-legendary Peewee Russell, who painfully extorted a half-hour's worth of intoxicated notes from his ram-shackle clarinet, after playing most of the afternoon at the Ken's rival session. Peewee hadn't been too exciting at the Ken, I understand--something about the other men not playing in the right key. But with his colleague Kaminsky to kid him along he gave of his knocked...
Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer boasted last week that, if they were needed, Spain would add 1,000,000 men to the Spanish Blue Division of 20,000 already sent to fight beside the Nazis in Russia. Russian sources recently claimed that 350 of those boys in blue had been sent back from Germany with venereal disease, 800 had deserted after an 850-mile march, mostly by foot, from Berlin to Novgorod, more than 8,000 had been killed on Russian soil...
...afternoon in June 1939, slim young Julia Esther Briones walked into a swank Guayaquil barbershop, pumped five bullets into her rich, reclining, about-to-be-shaved lover, Ramón Hidalgo R. To jail went Julia with a nine-year sentence. In November 1940, Army Captain Félix Guerrero Zarate blasted three bullets into the beautiful young body of his just-divorced wife, María Magdalena Mejía. To jail went Félix with an eight-year sentence...