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...three degrees better than the Ritz," said A.F. of L.'s San Pedro-Wilmington Labor Review. More important, it is a shining example of wartime housing construction. Plumbing fixtures are rough cast iron with plastic handles. Some toilet fixtures have glass pipes. There are no bathtubs or private bathrooms, just showers in central bathrooms. Only lighting facilities are wall plugs for wood-stemmed, paper-shaded floor lamps (one for every man). Bedsprings have wooden bases. Interior walls are mainly plywood...
...likable pretender. He is no sly neurotic, but a sobersided young man who studied politics at the Universities of Louvain and Brussels and likes to fly airplanes. His attractive young consort, the former Princess Isabelle d'Orléans-Bragance, 31, daughter of the late Brazilian Pretender Dom Pedro, would well become a throne. The would-be royal couple, incidentally, have six small children who are pictorially much more effective than their father...
Pursuit. It was not easy. Sensing danger, Nazi spymasters in Hamburg had named all their agents in the Americas with nicknames. Intercepted messages referred to "Bach," to "Pedro," to "Apfel." But patiently, month after month, the cryptic messages were studied and compared, the machinations of the spies uncovered. It was found that "Bach" was Ludwig von Bohlen, Air Attache to the Santiago German Embassy. A woman, one Isabel Pederit, was found to be the spy-ring expert, charged with developing letters written in secret inks. These came to her from all over the Americas, and the information they contained...
...days of Brazil's uneasy pro-Brazilian neutrality, her rotund, sparse-haired, convivial Chief of Staff, General Pedro Aurelio de Goes Monteiro, was popularly supposed to be hedging Brazil's bets, on the German side. He openly admired the German army and once was reported to have drunk a toast to its honor and glory. In April 1940 he received the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle, for "valued services by Brazil to Germany." If the Axis had won before the U.S. became involved, Brazilian Patriot Goes Monteiro would have been in a position...
South American journalism is more hazardous than the North American brand. La Prensa's publisher and principal owner, Ezequiel Pedro Paz, Don José's son, has twice been challenged to a duel. Because he is a crack pistol shot, neither duel was fought. Now over 70, Don Ezequiel shows up at the paper punctually at 5 p.m. for the daily editorial conference with Editor-in-Chief Dr. Rodolfo N. Luque. Present also is his nephew and heir-apparent, handsome Alberto Gainza ("Tito") Paz, 43, father of eight and ex-Argentine open golf champion. Significantly, La Prensa...