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...Class of 1946: Alfonso Benavides-Zamora, J. C. Dotson, Joseph Maxwell Feldman, Anthony George Macejunas, Harish Chandra Mahindra, Raul Jose Minondo, Howard Churachill Nutting, and Anthony Valentine Ursic...
...great revolt never came off. Erratic Lieut. Colonel Tomas Duco turned it into a comic-opera failure. Prematurely, he led his Third Infantry into the streets of Buenos Aires. They commandeered cars, trucks and a train. Occupying the suburb of Lomas de Zamora, they set up machineguns and artillery...
Refugees. Only one of the Republican leaders stayed to face the music. He was 70-year-old Julian Bestiero, who handed Madrid over to Franco and got a 30-year prison term for his courage. In France are ex-Presidents Niceto Alcalá Zamora and Manuel Azaña, ex-President Luis Companys of Catalonia, onetime Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, Generals Juan Sarabia and José Asensio, many others. Premier Juan Negrin and Foreign Minister Julian Alvárez del Vayo are in Mexico, as are some 6,000 of the more Leftist Republican supporters. Madrid's Savior, General...
...aging Minister interested himself in a pretty girl named Eugénie de Montijo, granddaughter of a U. S. consul whom Irving had known at Malaga. Eight years later she was Empress of France. But Irving's "favorite" was a fun-loving beauty with brooding eyes named Leocadia Zamora. Author Bowers is the first biographer to discover her portrait and her subsequent history. Like Antoinette Bolviller she had a meditative maturity. After Irving left Madrid she appeared less & less in society, finally founded a convent and entered it as mother superior, requiring that her portrait by Madrazo be painted...
...days later, the Vice President decided he had been called. It was the coldest day of the year: South Texas hunters knew deer would be running by the next dawn. While Lucas Zamora, the Mexican yard man, hung precariously in the tops of the live oaks, hacking out deadwood, and "Bertie," the cook, bustled about the kitchen "fixin' company dinner"; while Mrs. Ettie Garner tended her correspondence in the little office-house in the back yard; in the Garner garage Uvalde's garageman, Ross Brumfield, for 20 years the "Boss's" hunting companion, stowed away hunting gear...