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...Mexico, there is a legend that Miguel Alemán wins by the hand of death. He got into congress when the man for whom he was an alternate died. In 1936, he stepped into the governorship of his native Vera Cruz when the governor-elect was assassinated. His chance for the presidency opened last year when death came to Maximino, brother of President Manuel Avila Camacho, and Alemán's chief political enemy...
Divorced. By Vera Zorina, 29 (German-born Eva Brigitta Hartwig), whom Hollywood and a beautiful body have made the poor man's ballerina: George Balanchine (real name: Georgei Melitonovitch Balanchivadze), 42, crack choreographer whose fine Russian hand helped arouse Broadway's current balletomania; after seven years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
That was how Joe Martin, Philadelphia Inquirer photographer-off duty at the time-got a picture of tragedy (see cut). All over the U.S. last week, editors made room for it, and readers paused to stare at Mrs. Vera Blackson, whose two children had just died in a fire...
...second year at Maryinsky, Alexandra danced the lead in Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird, and from then on she was on her way. In 1924, she left the U.S.S.R. and joined Impresario Diaghilev in Paris. Her first husband was famed Choreographer Georges Balanchine (now married to Vera Zorina); her second an Italian engineer; her third and current one Dancer Kasimir Kokitch...
Reporters sought out witnesses. Bessie Barren, who had been a friend of Vera Walush, talked: Vera had admitted the cops had forced her to identify Joe falsely. Zagata, the trucker, told of being called into the judge's chambers, of hearing the judge say he believed Joe was innocent...