Word: marcelino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marcelino Soule, Gaucho of the pampas, travel is no problem. All you do is decide where you want to go, saddle your horse and go. Time and distance are trifles. Five years ago Marcelino rode for 3 years, 3 months, 17 days-from Buenos Aires to New York and Los Angeles-returned home with the urge for travel stronger than ever within...
Last week, dressed in his Gaucho garb, with his trusty maté pot strapped under the belly of his trusty horse Bolivar, Marcelino again set forth from Buenos Aires, with a string of eight horses and one bell mare. From Recife in Brazil Marcelino planned to ship over to Lisbon, thence to ride through Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Poland and Lithuania to Moscow's Red Square. He would leave a good Argentine horse with the Chief of State of each nation he passed through, saving the bell mare for Prime Minister Churchill on his way back...
What about the war? Marcelino could not see that it made any difference. But Brazil did not think this was quite the time for such a trip. The Argentine Foreign Office thought likewise. Police caught up with Marcelino a short way out of Buenos Aires, took him back...
...freezing in Buenos Aires last week, but no colder than the chances that Argentina would act against the Axis: > Liberal, hemisphere-minded President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz, after two years of increasing blindness from diabetes, at last resigned his office. This left the job to conservative Acting President Ramon S (for nothing) Castillo, whose neutrality quivers with Axis-sounding overtones...
...Buenos Aires airport, Dr. Castroviejo stepped out of the plane into an acute embarrassment, Dr. Ramon Cas-troviejo, a native of Castile, Spain, and now a citizen of the U.S., is a crack eye surgeon from Manhattan's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center; Argentina's President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz is almost blind. The doctor's embarrassment was caused by the crowd at the airfield, who put two & two together...