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...first shipment of crude rubber from the Philippines since Pearl Harbor is presumably on the way to the U.S. this week. The amount is small-66,500 Ibs. But the story of how it was prepared, by Mateo Ruiz, 40-year-old chief clerk at Goodyear Rubber Plantations Co.'s 2,500-acre Pathfinder plantation at Kabasalan, on Zamboanga, was one to make businessmen beam...
...Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, in his old attic studio in Paris' rue Saint Augustin, surrounded by pictures of blue women with square feet, declared that he had not only refused to collaborate with the Germans, said: "I even annoyed them." Said he: "They forbade my works to be shown because Hitler named me . . . decadent. But simple Nazi soldiers used to visit me. When they left I presented them with a souvenir postcard of my painting Guernica...
Just where Pablo Ruiz y Picasso is today, no one outside France can tell. Wherever he was, Picasso doubtless cared little what was said about him in Mexico City. He has always been personally scornful of the art markets which have made him one of the highest-priced figures in modern painting. Said he once: "Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly impostors." One museum has even gone out of its way to quote that remark. That was Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, chief overseer of Mexico City...
Badoglio was turned down by Sforza, by Croce, and by Dr. Orangio Ruiz, chairman of the Fronte Nazionale di Liberazione, which includes the six patriot and "opposition" parties. The meaning seemed clear: the King must go. That was the Marshal's message when he returned to the King's villa...
...ratification ceremonies, Argentina's Foreign Minister Ruiz Guinazu pointed up the clash between Hispanidad and Pan Americanism, lectured a picked audience of Spanish bigwigs and Argentines on the wisdom of President Castillo's neutrality policy, the virtues of Hispanidad...