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...Chileans were slightly more polite. In Santiago, President Jorge Ales-sandri greeted Tito with decorous formality and an evident desire to keep him out of sight. At the official reception in the ornate Palacio Cousino, Tito made only the briefest of appearances and was then hustled off to a private room before he had a chance to talk to anybody. Two of his five days in Chile were spent in complete seclusion at the seaside resort of Vina del Mar. Four of Alessandri's Cabinet ministers had al ready resigned in protest against his policies, and Chilean officials thought...
Annual Twinge. In Monroe. Mich., City Treasurer Hervin H. Cousino received an envelope containing $200 in bills and a crudely lettered one-word note, "restitution," recalled that a communication exactly like it had arrived last March with...
...Sculptor Cousino had done his carving in Italy, and brought the statue to Biarritz under heavy wraps. When the town was all set for the gala unveiling, a municipal councilman peeped under the wrappings and saw a horrifying sight: a bleak marble pyramid capped with the head of an agonizing, sphinxlike woman...
...Sculptor Cousino tried vainly to explain: "It's my conception of the Virgin, her mouth open in a stifled cry of the world's sufferings. I started off with the usual base, then despite myself, in the grip of a driving force, my hammer hit on my chisel. It was out of control. I was forced to obey orders which were not of my own inspiration. I can't say it's really mine...
Biarritz canceled the unveiling, refused to pay Cousino, and had the pyramid carted off to the city dump. But Biarritz still wants Eugenie. The city fathers are looking for another sculptor...