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...Breakfast!'' roared Captain Guillermo Alba Rodriguez at his dawdling orderly last March. When Orderly Juan Rivera shambled in 45 minutes later with breakfast he received a furious frontal kick from hungry Captain Rodriguez, crumpled up and died. Last week kicking Captain Rodriguez was tried by a Mexican court-martial, sentenced to be shot. "This is the first death sentence in the Mexican Army since 1927," announced a careful spokesman for the Court. "In that year General Rueda Quijana was shot for high treason...
...rolled Canarias that Spaniards smoke puts a few centesimos in the pockets of Juan March. Never able to read or write, he laid the foundation of his fortune by selling bootlegged cigarets made from smuggled tobacco. In an effort to collect a little money from him Dictator Primo de Rivera gave him the Morocco tobacco monopoly. Juan March bribed Morocco officials right & left, continued to use smuggled tobacco brought to his factories by Moorish tribesmen whom he is supposed to have supplied with arms...
Before the rage of Primo de Rivera and King Alfonso, he fled to France in a monk's cassock. Later he made peace with the crown and nearly won himself a title through elaborate gifts to charity. Juan March bulwarked his tobacco fortune with banks, newspapers, a steamship line, and after the revolution won himself immunity from arrest by a seat in the Cortes...
...studio, "The Jointure," in Ditchling, Brangwyn said that "painting the Sermon on the Mount without Christ was the greatest puzzle of his career." The reporter remembered that one wall of the RCA Building lobby where Brangwyn's mural will go was blank last week because Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera had refused to paint Nicolai Lenin out of his great panel. The story blathered across Manhattan's front pages that "Rockefeller Center Bars Jesus From Mural." Quietly Architect Hood said, "Whatever Brangwyn does-even if he presents the actual figure of Christ-will probably be accepted...
...thyroid route to slimness was all right for Diego Rivera who had a doctor watching him like a mother hen. But it is a risky business, just as unsupervised dieting is risky. Obesity is not a simple condition always due to gluttony or laziness. Endocrine glands may be out of order. A poor thyroid may not keep metabolism spurred. Poor sexual apparatus causes a peculiar pudginess and a warped pituitary gland an odd flabbiness. Dieting and/or exercise unaided by doctoring cannot put those glands back in kilter...