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Last week, from Guayaquil jail, Captain Félix Guerrero announced his engagement to Señorita Julia Esther Briones. Said Julia: "Our engagement ring is of steel, instead of gold, as a symbol of the durability of our love...
...afternoon in June 1939, slim young Julia Esther Briones walked into a swank Guayaquil barbershop, pumped five bullets into her rich, reclining, about-to-be-shaved lover, Ramón Hidalgo R. To jail went Julia with a nine-year sentence. In November 1940, Army Captain Félix Guerrero Zarate blasted three bullets into the beautiful young body of his just-divorced wife, María Magdalena Mejía. To jail went Félix with an eight-year sentence...
...charge of the Army nurses is Major Julia Flikke, who was born in Wisconsin, took up nursing after being left a widow before the war. Onetime assistant superintendent at Chicago's Augustana Hospital, she joined the Army in World War I, served in France, China and the Philip pines. For twelve years before she succeeded Major Julia C. Stimson as super intendent of the Corps in 1937, she was with the Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington. Gracious, grey-haired, she wears her major's oak leaves like a veteran...
...prewar months-and the hero of that exploit now stood as one of the most tragic figures of U.S. history. No great books, plays, inventions, discoveries, testified to any creative vitality surging through the nation. No poet came up with a war song thundering the modern equivalent of Julia Ward Howe's "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," that appeared seven months after Bull Run. In music, the Man of the Year was a German, Beethoven; the first four notes of his Fifth Symphony became the international signal of the anti-Nazi...
Died. Wells Hawks, 71, longtime press-agent of the old school; in Pomona, N.Y. In the early 1900s he publicized Julia Marlowe, Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore, popularized the Mary Pickford label: "America's Sweetheart...