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...International Surgical Digest, co-editor of Surgical Magazine, author of 250 scientific articles. Since Surgeon Ochsner and four Tulane colleagues started the clinic in 1941, it has treated 70,000 patients. Among them are many Latin American millionaires and government officials who find Dr. Ochsner and New Orleans simpático. Other Ochsner patients: the late Senator Theodore Bilbo, Trumpeter Muggsy Spanier...
...career diplomat and author of heavy works on jurisprudence, Ruiz Guiñazú rose from obscurity to president of the League of Nations Council because Argentina alphabetically led off the member nations. Descendant of an autocratic Spanish family and stubborn stickler for legal details, he is temperamentally simpático with Acting President Castillo but out of tune with popular sentiment. Officially quiet under "state-of-siege" orders, Argentines began the New Year with a spate of "last-time" hilarity, as if they realized there might be significant changes by New Year...
...Buenos Aires' farewell. The two Presidents drove down to the dock in a downpour of cold summer rain. Not only did 10,000 drenched soldiers present arms along the line of march, but many times as many soaking Argentineans turned out to wave farewell to this simpático Yankee. For once Franklin Roosevelt consented to ride in a limousine on a bad day. The car's roof was plastered with the sopping petals of flowers thrown from balconies. At the waterside President Roosevelt stopped to shake hands with the Argentine chauffeur, who beamed from...
...Primarily, however, the King's transcendent reason for marrying Mrs. Simp son is that he ardently loves her, and does not see why a King should be denied the privilege of marrying the lady he loves." Morgan & King. This by no means ended the struggle being waged to prevent the British public from becoming in formed. Reynolds Illustrated News of London meanwhile came out with a flat assertion that U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull will be asked to silence on the subject of Mrs. Simpson "a weekly periodical with a large and influential circulation." Reynolds continued...
Fleeing Yankee soldiers after his first killing, "Wes" Hardin ambushed them, killed three. Then he hid in central Texas and, with his cousin "Simp" Dixon, killed two more, which made him a popular Texan in the eyes of ex-Confederates. At 16 Hardin, mocked by a desperado who stole his gun and boots, salved his pride by plugging his tormentor between the eyes. For years he seemed to look into a gun barrel whenever he embarked on any peaceful venture. Once at a circus he accidentally bumped a roustabout who drew a pistol. Hardin, of course, killed...