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Brazil's Dillinger was somewhat more striking in appearance than his U. S. prototype. He wrore a bright red sombrero, glittering horn-rimmed spectacles and a gold & silver studded cartridge belt that held four rows of cartridges and was too wide for him ever to bend at the waist...
...order without law because the Cubans are a friendly people. . . . The situation in Cuba is a kind of passive anarchy." Far from passive last week was General Menocal's onetime subordinate, Captain Juan Bias Hernandez, veteran of the abortive 1931 Menocal Revolution against Tyrant Machado. With his wide sombrero cocked jauntily, swaggering Captain Bias was fighting Government troops and recruiting fighters of his own in Camaguey province. Last week he captured several towns-one named Moron-and beat his way steadily toward Havana. Terrified President Grau alternately threatened Bushwhacker Bias and parleyed with his son who popped...
...grandnephew of John D. Sr., at the Greenwich (Conn.) Country Day School, told her class last week to prepare a short story. That night Godfrey slept at a friend's house, plotted an early start West for story material. At 3 a. m.. Godfrey & friend, dressed in sombrero and Buffalo Bill belt, tiptoed out and legged it up the cold & windy Boston Post Road. Soon a police car pulled up, took them to the station house as homeless waifs. After they had given their names and before they were returned to their parents, the two were shown...
...stepped from his plane General Sandino looked the part: big pistol on hip, broad sombrero, soft white towel knotted carelessly around his neck, over-size field glasses dangling against unpressed khaki uniform, high top boots. Bellowed the National Guardsmen, "Viva Sandino...
...this must be traditionally heralded as "typically American" or perhaps, "as American as the earth from which its characters wrest their living", leaving to the reviewer's imagination a picture of brawny sons of toil, that solid backbone of the agricultural West and Middle West, that along with the sombrero and the pathos of the vanishing Indian form a part of the great American Tradition. Yet, however incomplete may be this traditional Americanization of America, the fact remains that "Three Steeples" stands as a powerful picture of a small agricultural community, a picture always painstaking often inspiring and inspired...