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With all his command of water and of words, Balboa was not able to stave off a rival conquistador named Pedro Arias Dávila. Pedrarias, as he was better known, displaced him as governor of Darién, and despite all Balboa's diplomacy (including marriage with Pedrarias' daughter), had his predecessor's head chopped off and stuck on a pole in the village square...
...Friends. By this time the "Gann-Longworth feud" was one of the nation's prime concerns. When it became known that Dolly would make her first appearance as Second Lady of the Land at a dinner to be given by Chilean Ambassador Carlos Dávila, citizens who wanted to witness her hour of triumph bid $100 for an invitation to the party. Finally, at 8:00 p.m. on April 11, 1929, buxom (180 Ibs.) Dolly Gann took the arm of diminutive (100 Ibs.) Carlos Dávila and marched to the head of the table. Alice Roosevelt Longworth...
...varsity summaries: Salaun (W) defeated Henry Foster (H), 3-2; Hugh Foster (H) defeated Jones (W), 3-0; McKittrick (H) defeated Travis (W), 3-0; Clark (H) defeated Price (W), 3-0; Nawn (H) defeated Carney (W), 3-0; Heath (H) defeated Vila (W), 3-0; Cabot (H) defeated Robinson (W), 3-0; Fischelis (H) defeated Ackerly (W), 3-0; Plimpton (H) defeated Peters...
...defeated A. Foster (H) 3-2; Wightman (H) defeated Capney (W) 3-1; Stevens (H) defeated Stillman (W) 3-0; Heath (H) defeated Newberry (W) 3-1; McGovern (H) defeated Lutz (W) 3_1; McKittrick (H) defeated Conin (W) 3-0; H. Foster (H) defeated Travis (W) 3-0; Vila (W) defeated Emerson (H) 3-1; Mead (H) defeated Gregory...
...Helena steamed on to her destiny. She pounded enemy airfields, troop areas, shore batteries. Down in her log went names now legendary: Munda, Vila, Kolombangara, Enogai Inlet, Bairoko Harbor. Finally came the Battle of Kula Gulf, a turning point which cost the Jap something between nine and eleven cruisers and destroyers. It cost the U.S. one ship: the Helena...