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...arrival in Guayaquil was announced in the morning paper, with picture. The title was "El Señor Bnelemaas"; the picture that of James Cromwell, who, says Bemelmans, is "the Ecuadorian ideal of the typical North American." Later, in a Quito paper, Cromwell appeared as Russell Davenport...
...Quito a sunburned lieutenant told him: "It is terrible here, Señor. First you must make love to this girl you want until your nose bleeds; second you must make love ... to her mother, her father, the butler, and the parrot, and in the end you must always marry her." The café society set was dull and insolent ("they all but come over to your table to read the labels on your clothes") but some of the transients were good. "Franz Josef's local grandson had some claim to authenticity: his accent was correct, he clicked...
...rest of Chairman Eastman's report (a dissent from the majority view that the merger was undesirable per se) was as neat an argument for the plan as any Transport lawyer could have concocted. Some day the opinion may be looked back to as having set the pattern for unified truck systems in the U. S. ". . . The opportunities for greater economy and efficiency of operation ... are extensive and important," Eastman wrote. "I should like to see the experiment tried. . . . Under present transportation conditions, monopoly is the thing which needs least of all to be feared...
...months ago Señora Dávila fell ill, had one operation, then another. Physicians told her that her best hope for recovery was to return to Chile. Last week in Chile it was summer, and the warm sun of her native land might strengthen Senora Dávila's waning vitality. But she could not stand a long sea voyage, or the comparatively slow flight by Clipper...
...motored Boeing bomber at Senora Dávila's disposal. One day last week an Army ambulance rolled Carlos Dávila's lady out to Mitchel Field, L. I. With a crew of eight, accompanied by her husband, an Army surgeon and a nurse (Olympia Fumigalli), Señora Dávila took off in her Flying Fortress. By radio she sent her thanks to Neighbor Roosevelt. Three days later. Franklin Roosevelt's big bird of good will deposited grateful Herminia Arrate de Dávila on her own soil again...