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Actually, for all his old-worldliness, Medina was raised in Brooklyn, was called a "greaser" at public school because his father was Mexican (his mother is a D.A.R. of Dutch descent). He made the water-polo team and Phi Beta Kappa at Princeton, and was earning $100,000 a year as a lawyer before President Truman appointed him to the federal bench...
...When a team of U.S. and Mexican inspectors, vaccinating Mexican cattle against aftosa (foot & mouth disease), set out for the mountain country northwest of Mexico City, it was warned of possible trouble. A scout reported that villagers and farmers in the area were being told by the deeply Catholic, anti-government Sinarquistas: "He who cooperates with the anti-aftosa commission is a traitor. Do not cooperate. The anti-aftosa is a. Russian Communist plot to destroy your cattle...
Stocky, brown-haired Robert Proctor, the 23-year-old team leader, was not the sort to walk away from trouble. Handy with his fists, fluent in Texmex Spanish,* he had been one of the most promising rodeo riders around Tucson, Ariz, before he went south to help stamp out aftosa. He had handled plenty of tough situations; he figured he could handle this...
...their first pennant since the American League was organized in 1901, the threadbare Browns went from bad to worse. About a year ago, the Browns sold a batch of their best players in order to stay solvent. The chief trouble, it seemed, was that St. Louis was a one-team town and the flashy St. Louis Cardinals were that team. The Browns were caricatured on sport pages as a bearded hillbilly leading a forlorn hound dog. Except for special occasions, the attendance followed the pattern of the pre-World War I days, which a mournful St. Louis sportwriter once characterized...
...long wanted to bring Richard Strauss's Salome back to its boards. But since its last performance five years ago, with George Szell in the pit, and Soprano Lily D janel swirling Salome's seven veils, the Met had been unable to get the right conductor-singer team together to do it again, and do it well. And with New York's upstart City Opera Company getting bravos for its lively, scaled-down production (TIME, Dec. 13), the Met knew that if it revived Salome at all, it would have to be mighty good...