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Long Live Christ the King. The tautly disciplined column marched in 38 groups, each under its own jefe de grupo. The groups even prayed in unison. Sometimes there would be a moment of silence. Then the column leaders would shout "Viva Cristo Rey," and back would come the roar: "Viva...
...Mayor William O'Dwyer, in & around the Caribbean on vacation, got the key to San Juan from its lady mayor and a thumping, flag-waving welcome from the Puerto Ricans. To Dominicans later he confessed that some well-meant shouts of the Puerto Rican populace had been: "Viva O'Guardia...
...David Ruesga of the Protestant Church of God is in a tough spot. In Roman Catholic Mexico the members of his sect, who are most numerous in rural areas, are generally treated as outcasts. Their revivalistic meetings are sometimes stoned. Small boys ring Evangelista doorbells, then run, or paint Viva Cristo Rey (Long Live Christ the King) on Evangelista walls. Since President Manuel Avila Camacho announced in 1940 that he was a "believer," and thus took the government heat off the Roman Catholic church, anti-Protestant persecution of the proselyting Evangelistas has steadily grown. Last week...
...come to honor both the living and the dead. The final lush chords of Boito's music (from his operas Mefistofele and Nerone) were drowned by applause. But when 81-year-old Conductor Toscanini hopped spryly down from the podium, the whole house was on its feet screaming "viva il maestro;" cried one voice, "Non c'e che lui" (he's in a class by himself). For 19 minutes the bedlam continued; the soloists (two of whom, Soprano Herva Nelli and Baritone Frank Guarrera, Metropolitan audition winner, had been brought from the U.S. by Toscanini) took...
...Viva Toscanini...