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Ruiz Cortínez is a staid standard-bearer for Mexico's "revolutionary" party. He hates publicity, speaks rarely, lives modestly in one of the capital's more conservative neighborhoods. His favorite relaxation is playing dominoes. After thirteen years in the revolutionary army without rising above the rank of major and eleven years in government bureaus without rising above the rank of clerk, he joined young Mike Alemán and rode the escalator right behind him-first to the governorship of his native Veracruz, then to the Ministry of Interior, the job from which Alem...
...Civil War fields. He paid Correspondent Ben C. Truman* an unheard-of $100 weekly; Truman sped to the Times the news of a Union victory at Franklin, Tenn. four days before the War Department got it. (But the Times was scooped on the fall of Vicksburg because its dispatch bearer got drunk along the way.) So timely were Times reports that General McClellan accused Raymond of aiding the enemy. The little general demanded that the paper be suppressed because it printed a detailed map of the defenses around Washington. Snapped Raymond: a similar map could be bought in any Washington...
...welcome word came to Italy that Ulanova would appear for a festival concert at Florence's Teatro Comunale. Into Florence, three weeks ago, came ten Russians, accompanied by the secretary of the Rome Embassy and an Italian Communist bigwig. Heading and herding the group was one Alexander Kholodilin, bearer of a jawbreaking title: Chief of the Central Delegation of the Musical Institution of the Art Committee of the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers. His wards were the cream of Russian stars. Eight of them-three concert singers, two violinists, a pianist, two ballet dancers-had won the Stalin Prize...
...have in my possession a lottery ticket belonging to my great-grandfather, Asa Walker, which states that the bearer is entitled to one-third the prize if drawn against No. 6069, with 13 shillings deductible for the benefit of the third class of Harvard College...
...United States is the bearer of the world's real revolution," Francis Russell, State Department Director of Public Affairs, told the members of the National Students Association forum, held last night in New Lecture Hall...