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...joined the cavalry to fight Apaches; marched through the 800-mi. prairie fire of 1889. After rough riding with Roosevelt in Cuba, he became captain of the Arizona Rangers, finally penitentiary warden at Yuma (1907). All in all he calls it "a pretty good old life. Bullwhacking, cowpunching, soldiering, border ranging, she's been a grand old pasear...
Five swooping airplanes sent bomb after bomb splashing into a dense wood not far from La Paz in Argentina's northeastern border province of Entre Rios, last week. The bullets nipped off leaves & branches, plopped into tree trunks, but not a man did they hit. Twenty-one provincial police went scurrying into the wood, shouting and firing. Fourteen scampered back. When night fell Argentina's "Three Wild Irishmen"-Mario, Eduardo and Roberto Kennedy-still held their wood. In Buenos Aires Dictator-President General Jose Francisco Uriburu pulled his long mustaches and scratched his head. He could not turn...
...representatives of any newspaper, and all representatives of all newspapers, and hold a star chamber session from which the observing eye of public .opinion has been withdrawn." The offending editorial, Lawyer Baker thought, was "exceedingly temperate." Lawyer Allan Prewitt: "Are you going to let that paper stay across the border and exercise this baleful influence? . . . When a man interferes with court he is told to stay out. Are you going to let this paper interfere with justice? The right of free press is no greater than the right of free speech. . . . Why can't they put a newspaper...
Girl of the Rio (RKO-Radio) is a passable little border romance made from a play called The Dove, in which the late Holbrook Blinn distinguished himself eight years ago. It is about a Mexican millionaire (Leo Carrillo) who, to facilitate his abduction of a cabaret girl (Dolores Del Rio) has her sweetheart (Norman Foster) jailed and removed from the country. All this is done with a superfluity of Mexican accent by Carrillo and Del Rio, and reiterations of clean young Americanisms by Foster, who encourages Del Rio by saying "Be game, kid." In the play these exaggerations made...
Four hours by car, an hour and a half by plane from Hollywood, Agua Caliente is the most elaborate pleasure resort in North America. It was organized three years ago, largely by 34-year-old James Crofton who had previously been a racetrack barker at the squalid little border town of Tijuana, three miles farther...