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...Cespedes. Under no illusions last week as to who could make or break him, small Senor de Cespedes publicly embraced tall Ambassador Welles, lauded him in repeated public eulogies. What Cuba fears is that the U.S. beet sugar producers and the cane sugar men from Florida, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines may succeed in their present drive at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to have U.S. imports of Cuban sugar reduced by a drastic quota to 1,700,000 short tons per annum-less than Cuba has exported to the U.S. in any year during the past generation...
Latest of "Candid Camera" experts is Reinie Lohse, a Puerto Rico-born Dane. Last January he was nobody. Last week his photographs were featured in six magazines (The Stage, Vogue, Vanity Fair, American Magazine, Cottier's, Town & Country) and he held a one-man show. The 200 photographs on the walls of the Atlantic Beach Club at Long Beach, L. I. Last week were chiefly on theatrical subjects, all unposed. A tiny Contax camera looking like a child's harmonica, with a rapid-fire F 1.3 lens had turned them out the size of a special delivery stamp...
Heavyset, unaffected, truculent-looking, Remie Lohse, 40, has yellow fingernails from the methylhydroquinone he uses in developing his tiny photographs. Once his fingers were paint-stained. Leaving Puerto Rico where first his grandfather and then his father were Scandinavian vice-consuls, he studied painting at Denmark's Royal Academy, exhibited a few academic landscapes, interiors and nudes. In 1928 he arrived in the U. S. to wangle odd jobs, worked up to testing the water content of chewing gum in a Long Island City chiclets factory, finally in 1929 to an art department job in Manhattan's Erwin...
Other Countries: Canada 11, Japan 4, Porto Rico 2, seven others 1 each...
...Most notable means by which Providence aids Puerto Rico's overpopulation problem: hurricanes...