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...exile is Newsman Dávila. He is a sort of unofficial Chilean Ambassador, through his Editors Press Service, Inc. makes big medicine for Franklin Roosevelt in Latin America. Last week Carlos Dávila was on his way back to Chile in a U. S. Army bomber. With him went his wife. Herminia Arrate de Dávila...
...stood in little clumps for hours, looking like bunches of dry cactus blossom in their earthy blues, reds, yellows, talking of the parade of the Señor Henry Wallace. They said that he was of much sympathy, a plougher of ground like themselves, a gringo with the proper sort of gentle eyes. They put too much emphasis on his first name, for he spoke a kind of Spanish and they supposed that like Hispano-Mexicans he used both parents' names, Henry for his father, Wallace after his mother. The bolder among them spoke of having peeked into...
...Mexico City there was another sort of welcome. Henry Wallace, Good Neighbor, got his first shock. As his party arrived at the U. S. Embassy there were more clumps of Mexicans chatting and laughing as they waited, but these were young intellectuals and fanatical women. Seeing them, the official Mexican chaperons had the good sense to hurry their distinguished guest into the Embassy by a side door before he was noticed. Members of the Embassy staff and newspapermen waited on the front steps. LIFE photographer Carl Mydans wandered into the crowd and snapped some pictures. The groups began mumbling...
...machine guns until it was on the ground, and continued shooting as it taxied up. The plane taxied up to the line and a 19-year-old kid got out of the cockpit, walked over to the artillery commander, and said, 'I say, my good fellow, if this sort of thing continues, I shall have to report...
Last week U. S. football fans were ready to admit that Rockne was right. Taking over a feeble Stanford team that had failed to win a Pacific Coast Conference game last year, Coach Shaughnessy and his T formation (a sort of button-button -who's -got -the -button offensive ) transformed the wooden Indians into the most formidable team on the Coast...