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...months the case had rocked Santa Ana, Calif., and the $50,000,000 Army air base there. It had split the town's top social stratum wide open, divided officers on the station into cliques, shaken the loyalties of thousands of cadets in training. Now the feud between Colonel William Abbott Robertson, frosty commanding officer of the base, and Colonel Joseph James Canella, brawny, fun-loving base quartermaster, hit its climax. Colonel Canella was indicted for conspiring to defraud the U.S. Government...
...Army, 28 letters of commendation from various superiors. No West Pointer. he started his Army career as an ROTC man at the University of Iowa, where he played such violent football that he was dubbed the "Sicilian Assassin." Three days after Pearl Harbor, he arrived at Santa Ana to start building the air base. He liked parties, told cute stories, refereed cadets' football games. Townspeople and cadets liked...
...people of Santa Ana soon found that they could not ask Robertson and Canella to the same parties without awkwardness. So they took sides. So did the other officers-and the cadets, most of whom thought that Canella was a ''swell guy," that Robertson was too severe...
Delfino v. Dafoe. Last July the prosperous Diligentis were vacationing in a fashionable resort in the Córdoba Hills, 400 miles from Buenos Aires. The Señora, who was expecting, came down to Buenos Aires for a routine check-up by slender, capable Midwife Ana Delfino. Her personal calculations allowed her 20 days, but the midwife knew better, put her to bed at once in her own house. At 9 a.m. on July 15, 1943, little Franco arrived, followed at 20-minute intervals by María Fernanda, Carlos Alberto, and María Ester...
...years ago, came to Argentina in 1923. He is tall, well-built, with thin blond hair and slightly bulgy blue eyes. Starting from scratch, he made about a million dollars, owns three large farms, a dye works, a textile mill and a vegetable-oil factory. Señora Ana María Aversavo de Diligenti, pleasant, plump, 42 and also born near Milan, came to Argentina as a singer with a small opera company, leaving a husband in Italy. She gave up her career eight years ago when she and a small son, by her first husband, moved in with...