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Bathroom Scene. Ostensible excuse for PerÓn's new wave of terror was an abortive coup instigated in CÓrdoba by brave but bumbling ex-President General Arturo Rawson. But the resounding demonstration staged in the streets of Buenos Aires last fortnight by 500,000 irate Argentines, some of them bearing a placard of famed Patriot Rogue Saenz Pefia was the tip-off to PerÓn that he had better get tough...
General Arturo Rawson became President, ruled Argentina for almost two days. While Porteños, and the rest of the world, looked on in some amazement, the Presidential guard was changed at the double quick, and swifter than the opening of a trap door, General Pedro Ramirez succeeded President Arturo Rawson...
After a long-drawn-out struggle, Henry N. Lamar, coach of the Varsity football team, yesterday won a handball tournament held among the members of the athletic department. By beating Coach Rawson of the ASTP, former boxing instructor here, in the final round, Coach Lamar, a pretty good boxer in his own right, firmly established himself as the acknowledged local handball champion...
...field of 12 assorted coaches and Navy Chiefs started the tournament, four of them drawing byes in the first round. Coach Lamar swept through all opposition, winning every game in each of the four matches in which he played. He won the final match against Coach Rawson by the scores...
...worse than ever. Knots of opposition, as yet ineffective but nonetheless significant, began to appear. Some of the army's generals began to look askance at Peron's strutting colonels. For want of a better leader some anti-totalitarians were turning to former three-day President Arturo Rawson.*Pro-Allied but indecisive, he had often proved disappointing...