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...Blood. President Martínez is a mystic who came to power in 1931. He first won election as Vice President, then arranged an army revolt, kicked out the President and took over the country. A dark and slender Indian who calls himself a theosophist, he used to proclaim: "The invisible legions follow me." After twelve years of his rule, his countrymen are ready to believe...
Delfino v. Dafoe. Last July the prosperous Diligentis were vacationing in a fashionable resort in the Córdoba Hills, 400 miles from Buenos Aires. The Señora, who was expecting, came down to Buenos Aires for a routine check-up by slender, capable Midwife Ana Delfino. Her personal calculations allowed her 20 days, but the midwife knew better, put her to bed at once in her own house. At 9 a.m. on July 15, 1943, little Franco arrived, followed at 20-minute intervals by María Fernanda, Carlos Alberto, and María Ester...
...Short, slender, tongue-cheeked Columnist Fisher quickly skirts the dangers to a free press inherent in mass misinformation and in mass-distributed opinion slanted to particular ends. He passes on to a detailed study of his voluble subjects-"faulty and imperfect souls, no matter what their clients believe." Some of the Fisher findings...
Heat, Sin and Revival. Strange Fruit tells of Nonnie Anderson, a tall, slender, black-eyed, gentle Negro girl who has been in love with Tracy Deen, the son of Maxwell's doctor, since she was six years old. Now, when he is home from the war, with his college career broken off, with his father urging him to become a doctor and his mother after him to join the church, their love affair has grown into a deeper companionship. He also likes to talk to her. Strange Fruit begins (and reaches its most moving passages) with Nonnie...
Common Sense was, in a sense, celebrating the fact that it was no longer being supported in part by the Chicago Tribune's lush dividends. The Colonel's niece had sold her last six shares of Tribune stock to Colonel McCormick (for about $210,000). Says slender, 31-year-old Mrs. Katrina McCormick Barnes: "I've always hated Uncle Bertie...