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...Rico in Little Caesar, Robinson's character is less fragrant. But he is not devoid of a certain fatuous charm: his sentimental inability to knock off a stool pegeon of long acquaintance proves his undoing, thus leaving us a foul moral lesson that somehow cluded the censors...
Last week the dictator callously pulled the rug out from under his apologists. Four new Trujillo laws went into effect, aimed squarely at the two U.S. sugar companies-the West Indies Sugar Corp. and the South Porto Rico Sugar Co.-which grow and mill 70% of the country's sugar. One of the new laws empowers Trujillo's sanitary inspectors to fine the companies and shut down their mills for health-code infractions; another requires the companies to pay production taxes on their full sugar quotas whether the mills are running or not. Two other laws levy...
...attacking them steadily, and with his sanitary inspectors likely to drop in any time to assess heavy fines for a loose roof tile or a leaky pipe, the U.S. companies can not be sure what their eventual fate may be. This week representatives of West Indies and South Porto Rico are scheduled to fly from New York for a meeting at which they hope to find out what the Benefactor really wants-and why the boss so often defended as friendly to business has been giving business the business...
Marriage Revealed. Keenan Wynn, 37, Hollywood comedian (Kiss Me Kate); and Sharley Jean Hudson, 21; he for the third time, she for the first; in San Juan, Puerto Rico...
...KIXL, KXJK, KXXX), and a few like New Year's Eve (WOOW, WEEI). For the commercially minded, there are KOIN, KASH and KALE. A rundown of Hawaiian stations has the roll of a Polynesian alphabet (KILA, KONA, KIPA, KULA, KANI), and the palm for redundancy goes to Puerto Rico's'monotonous station WWWW...