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Last month, fast-stepping hotelman Conrad Hilton was buttonholed by the Puerto Rico Development Co., a government-backed organization. The Puerto Ricans wanted Connie Hilton to run a new beach hotel in tropical San Juan. Hilton was flattered, but wanted "an intelligent deal." Last week...
...Olympian judgments, professional footnotes, diary extracts and side remarks on subjects as remote as the writings of Vincent Sheean or the progress of the Pacific naval war. But the main theme is clearly and realistically developed. It may shock the kind of complacent liberal who assumes that Puerto Rico's troubles could be solved in short order if only some New Dealer would come along, ease out the "big sugar interests" and clean up the noisome San Juan slums...
F.D.R. In Retrospect. Tugwell had once been among Franklin Roosevelt's closest advisers, yet even when war came, the President left him sidetracked in Puerto Rico. One of the most interesting passages in The Stricken Land is Tugwell's attempt to balance his enthusiasm for F.D.R. with his marked reservations. Writes Tugwell: "It was not because he was a great mai, nor because he was always right, that I loved him. I perhaps more than others had always been critical of his methods and even his results. . . . Like other men, looked at critically, he was not infallible...
...practice as a corporation lawyer, became a friend of Franklin Roosevelt. Among Government jobs he faithfully served at: adviser on the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion Board. Among jobs he was mentioned for but did not take: president of the New York Stock Exchange, governor of Puerto Rico. Max Gardner, big. pink and amiable, does not stick his neck...
Divorced. Luis ("El Vate") Muñoz Marin, 48, broody-eyed President of Puerto Rico's Senate, founder and guiding spirit of the Popular Democratic Party, political hero of the poverty-stricken jibaros (hill people); by Muna Lee, 51, Mississippi-born poetess after 27 years of marriage, two children; in San Juan...