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...come-back. Durante's real-life comeback gives his nostalgic character job much pathos and effect, along with his side-splitting humor. And with Young Man with a Horn Harry James tooting a mean tube, Gracie Allen going through the paces of her one-fingered piano comedy-classic, and Jose Iturbi doing some serious and dignified ivory-tickling, "Two Girls and A Sailor" has something of just about everything...
...some ways, mostly personal, Somoza is a more attractive character than his visible opponents. Some of them fed at his trough until recently. Now that they have left him, they find his excesses hard to stomach. Old Jose Moncada, lately in retirement, is credited with saying: "While I was President, they called me a thief. Alongside this man I am an angel...
...process was developed by a St. Paul inventor named Jose Baraquiel Calva, onetime Mexican government engineer. By treating fibers with several chemicals, including cresol, alcohol, benzol and hydrochloric acid, he converts them into a resinous plastic. The fibers can then be stiffened or softened, straightened or curled, made mothproof, shrinkproof, even waterproof...
Meanwhile the production of classical symphonic records continues in a slow but steady trickle. The latest releases: Morton Gould: Latin American Symphonette (Rochester Philharmonic, Jose Iturbi conducting; Victor; 6 sides). A skillfully concocted olla podrida of Latin American nightclub idioms sizzling in Stravinskian sauce with occasional Straussian dumplings. Performance: excellent...
...underground Democratic Front committee in Guayaquil, Ecuador's hot and humid metropolis on the Pacific Coast. The Dictator, said the message, had ordered his police to shoot any citizen who interfered with the poll. In his exile headquarters on the Colombian frontier, the Democratic Front leader, scholarly Dr. Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, pondered and schemed. Hidden in Ecuador, a spectacular family trio-the brothers Leonidas, José María and Galo Plaza-made ready to strike on Velasco Ibarra's behalf. Leonidas escaped from jail last December, ever since had been plotting the Dictator's overthrow...