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...Giro's, a plushy nightspot in Mexico City, the band beat out a rumba rhythm. Americanos were on their feet almost before the Mexicans. Rotund Leon Henderson and his smartly tailored brunette wife, vacationing in Mexico, listened to a few frenzied beats, then let themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: La Bamba | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...hospitalized veterans, things were looking up last week. Rotund, hard-working Major General Paul R. Hawley, onetime Chief Surgeon of the ETO, began work as the Veterans' Administration's medical boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Broom | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

Besides the expected change in the State Department, Washington politicos expected something like this: 9 Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, would be replaced. Possible successors: California's Edwin W. Pauley. hustling treasurer of the Democratic National Committee; or John Wesley Snyder, rotund, 48-year-old St. Louis banker, close friend of the President, former executive vice president and director of the Defense Plant Corp. in Jesse Jones's RFC. (Snyder, said Washington speculation, might first become Federal Lean Administrator, succeeding Fred Vinson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Now? | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

...coalition of Socialists, Social Democrats, Communists, Catholics, Agrarians and Independents. Its Premier: Social Democrat Zdenek Fierlinger, rotund ex-Ambassador to Moscow and prime protagonist of friendship with Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Hail Benes! Hail Stalin! | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...musty elegance of Dublin's old Shelbourne Hotel, a knowing audience of Irish socialites, critics and Government officials gathered for a song recital. The most conspicuous guest was a resident of the hotel: rotund Tenor John McCormack, 60, who sat on a horsehair sofa in the corner, listening with closed eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music, Mar. 19, 1945 | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

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