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...planes darted overhead. One 21-gun salute after another boomed out. Within the pea-green reception room of the government building in the dusty Dominican border town of Elias Pifia, officials of Hispaniola's two little republics crowded close. Then Generalissimo Dr. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Honorable Chief of State, Benefactor of the Nation, President and for 20 years dictator of the Dominican Republic, stepped forward and embraced coal-black Colonel Paul Magloire, newly elected President of Haiti and something of a strong man himself...
Fish Story. In San Rafael, Calif., John Albright's petition was denied after he explained to the court that he wanted to become a U.S. citizen because citizens pay only $3 for the same fishing license that costs him, a Canadian...
Porfirio Ramirez, inactive in politics himself, was the brother of Caribbean Legion General Miguel Angel Ramirez, onetime Dominican diplomat and leader of two abortive expeditions to invade the Dominican Republic. Last spring, after Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo's knuckles were rapped by the Organization of American States in a report on Caribbean plotting (TIME, March 27), the dictator invited all exiles to come home. Ramirez refused, and the exile committee said that Trujillo took his revenge on Porfirio Ramirez...
...government-subsidized BBC had searched for more than a year for a conductor who would take the job. They had dangled the ?10,000 salary before Sir John Barbirolli, but he preferred to stick with his beloved Halle Orchestra in Manchester for less money. Brilliant young Czech Conductor Rafael Kubelik was tempted, but he turned it down to take over the Chicago Symphony (TIME, Jan. 9). After six months of negotiation, Sir Malcolm had accepted on condition that he could spend half his time free-lancing at home & abroad and conducting the roof-raising choral concerts which are his specialty...
When 26-year-old Father Hermogenes Coronel came to the sleepy little parish of San Rafael in 1940, no one welcomed him more heartily than Alfredo Musni. The priest took a room in Alfredo's house, became fast friends with Alfredo, his wife and his daughter Gloria. Later, Father Coronel and Alfredo's brother-in-law entered a business partnership to found the San Rafael Academy. In 1946, Alfred Musni enrolled blooming 18-year-old Gloria in Father Coronel's school...