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This year Public Welfare Minister Dr. Gustavo Baz and his wife, acting as godparents, witnessed the marriage of Octogenarian Simón Rocha and his sweetheart of these several decades-enough decades, in fact, to see the birth of 18 children. One of Simón Rocha's grandsons was married at the same time...
Then, tipped off that big news was coming, the correspondents guessed rightly at MacArthur's arrival, but were forbidden to tell how he got there. So they were scooped again by the Chicago Sim's H. R. Knickerbocker and the New York Herald Tribune's Allen Raymond, who presumably had not heard that details of MacArthur's trip were off the record...
Died. Doña Elena Patiño, Marquesa de Valparaiso y del Mérito, daughter of Tin King Simón I. Patiño of Bolivia; after a month's illness; in Manhattan. A woman in her early 30s, she had been given a fortune by her fabulously wealthy father when she married, and she became one of the world's wealthiest women when he distributed the bulk of his estate to his family last...
...Spider. His admirers say that Aranha (pronounced Aran-yah) has the eloquence of Aristide Briand, the romantic dash of D'Artagnan and the Pan-American idealism of the great Simón Bolivar. Actually Aranha is a onetime fire-breathing revolutionary who believes with cold logic that Brazil's self-interest now, as traditionally in the past, lies in close ties with the U.S. He has cemented those ties through hard work, U.S. loans and a charming gift of gab in Portuguese, French, Spanish and English. The word Aranha means "spider" in Portuguese and Aranha, audacious, hypertonic, sometimes...
...invade its 40-mile-long eastern cape where the holy and historic Mount towers in misty beauty above monasteries perching like fabulous castles on crags above the sea. Surrounded by flower-scented glens and gorges, veiled with pine and cypress and chestnut, are great Lavra Monastery, Vatopédi, Simöpetra, bastioned Dionysiou (which proudly possesses the brain and right hand of Saint John the Baptist) and many others, each with its fusty library and gilded Byzantine church...