Word: valparaiso
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...Illini, with six veterans back, are among the Midwest's best. So are Iowa's Hawkeyes, Ohio State's Buckeyes, Notre Dame's Irish (whose basketball record through the years is nearly as good as its football record), and Valparaiso's altitudinous Indianians, eight of whose dozen players are 6 ft.-3 or taller. Valparaiso and its 2-year-old star, Bob Dille, might prove to be the cream of the whole crop...
...dull gallery walls were aflame with pictures of orange and crimson plazas in Valparaiso and Santiago. Luis Herrera Guevara, a Chilean "primitive" painter of great splash & dash, was having his first U.S. exhibition, in Manhattan. He showed sailing boats in a topsy-turvy port, ornate buildings with leaning façades, a bus looking like an enlarged caterpillar, a self-portrait revealing a jaundiced gentleman with jet hair. Critics were enchanted. They could not fail to make comparisons with the pigmental innocence and charm of France's late, great "primitive" Henri "Douanier" Rousseau...
Plot. Long before Pearl Harbor a secret radio station was installed under the direction of German Shipping Representative Frederick von Schultz Hausmann in Valparaiso, Chile. Communications were established between Nazi spy headquarters in Hamburg and a far-flung and intricate network of German spies and saboteurs in the Western Hemisphere...
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...
...departure to Chile of Peter Paul von Bauer, who operated the German-owned Scadta Airline until it was seized by the Government last year. In Chile he did his best to ingratiate himself with Chilean authorities by presenting them with a German freighter which had been tied up in Valparaiso Harbor since the war began...