Word: rends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...candidate was thoroughly enjoying Mexico's presidential election campaign last week. He was a squat, rumpled gum-chewing artist, palmist and poet named Pedro Rend...
...RendÓn campaign began when a group of coffee-drinking intellectuals, who daily lounge in the wicker easy chairs of Mexico City's Café Paris, decided to nominate a "people's candidate." Candidate RendÓn decided to take the nomination seriously...
...RendÓn meets nightly with his rapidly increasing following in the Café Paris campaign headquarters, enthusiastically talks politics, even more enthusiastically passes the hat for the "campaign fund." The "fund" provides a better living than RendÓn's pick-me-ups as palm-reader, indifferent painter and author of paid panegyrics for real politicos. (He has gained eight pounds since his nomination...
...street, fun-loving Mexicans greet RendÓn with earnest inquiries about his campaign's progress. The press, which has dubbed him "the picturesque presidential candidate" (in contrast to the Mexican Revolutionary Party's dull favorite, former Interior Minister Miguel Aleman), has gaily promoted his Mexican Rendonian Party (Partido Rendoncista Mexi-cano). Mexico City's weekly picture magazine AS (Ace) ran the campaigning artist on its cover...
...first meet of the season here Wednesday. Plimpton, number one man for Harvard, lost to Sonnabend of Tech. The next two contests in order saw Pierce and Hewson of the visitors emerge victors over Knowles and Conlon. In the final pair of matches, Scherer defeated Frothingham and Rend beat Femberg. In a later meeting, the Harvard Whites triumphed over the Harvard Reds...