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...building where an Italian Red Cross benefit was being held. The benefit turned into a riot. A 70-year-old drawing teacher, Gregorio Morales, was killed while onlooking. An automobile careened down the street, its occupants firing into the crowd. Down went 17-year-old Walter Medina, shouting: "Viva la Democracies!" Three days later the police announced that three men had confessed to the killing of Teacher Morales. One of them was Italian Vice Consul Andres Musciani...
...past ten years, Dolan has toiled in Hollywood, worked betimes on radio scripts for the Big Town series. Seven years ago he adapted the cinema Viva, Villa! for radio...
...TIME would do a thing like this. We fellows down here in the American Club fairly mangle your airmailed copy, currently flown down. . . . Viva TIME Incorporated! IVAN A. KURYLA American Club Buenos Aires, Argentina Sirs: Congratulations and many thanks! May 5, 1941 issue was on my desk when I arrived in the morning May 8. It was mailed from...
...work triumphantly finished, they refused to accept payment. "We do not take money from Red Cross workers, from Americans," their spokesman said, "for the Americans are our friends. We look to them to save us from being pushed over a precipice. . . ." And we drove off to heartfelt cries of "Viva I' America! Viva Roosevelt...
...their distinguished guest into the Embassy by a side door before he was noticed. Members of the Embassy staff and newspapermen waited on the front steps. LIFE photographer Carl Mydans wandered into the crowd and snapped some pictures. The groups began mumbling a chant, which gradually grew to not "Viva Wallace," not "Viva Avila Camacho," but "Viva Almazán." This was a crowd of supporters of the defeated Presidential candidate, protesting U. S. recognition of Avila Camacho...