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What Batlle Berres and his 153 won was six seats on the nine-man, Swiss-type National Council, with Batlle Berres slated to be the first council president. His opponents charged that he is against the "multi-person executive," which replaced the office of President in 1952, and will try to get himself voted sole President again. Campaigning with his favorite lapel decoration, a sprig of pine, Batlle Berres promised simply to encourage industrialization and higher farm production. His record shows that he approves of Uruguay's mild socialism, disapproves of his powerful Argentine neighbor Juan Peron, in general...
...Militar, Nobile y Espirituoso de los Caballeros de Brusadelli-which means, more or less, the Military Order of the Noble and Spirited Knights of Brusadelli. It was founded by Hemingway in Italy, and named, as he explains in Across the River and Into the Trees, "after a particularly notorious multi-millionaire taxpaying profiteer of Milan, who had . . . accused his young wife, publicly and legally through due process of law, of having deprived him of his judgment through her extraordinary sexual demands." As Commander of the Great Chain of the Order, Hemingway distributed knighthoods to friends; after his recovery he returned...
...multi-stamped envelope mailed from Belgium was delivered to my desk the other day. It contained a letter written by a priest, who explained that he had been studying sociology in Europe. He requested that his name not be used, but thought that I and perhaps other TIME readers might be interested in a recent experience he had with the magazine. This is his story...
...several parties she met Harry Frank Guggenheim, former ambassador to Cuba, mining and minerals heir and head of two of his family's multi-million-dollar foundations. Although her father had still not forgiven her for divorcing Brooks, and had no affection for Harry Guggenheim, she married him nonetheless in 1939. He found a remedy for his wife's restlessness right away. "Everybody," said Harry Guggenheim, "ought to have a job. People who make a business of pleasure are seldom happy." A year after they were married, he set his words into action by putting up about...
Died. Bert Acosta, 59, pilot of the historic multi-engined flight across the Atlantic (1927) with Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Bernt Balchen; of tuberculosis; in Denver. At 14 (in 1910), Acosta built and flew his own plane, went on to establish a world's speed record (176.7 m.p.h.) at 26 and endurance record (51 hr. 11 min. 25 sec.) at 32; in later life, despite hard times and family problems, wound up with a legendary reputation for skillful piloting and artful risk-taking (e.g., he once buzzed Manhattan's Metropolitan Life tower to see what time...