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When Peronistas seized La Prensa in Buenos Aires, they tore down the bronze statue atop the newspaper's building and hacked it into pieces. Symbolically, the statue was a woman representing truth, with a torch in one hand and La Prensa in the other. Last week the arm bearing the torch was unveiled in the building at a triumphant ceremony restoring the plant to Editor-Publisher Alberto Gainza Paz. "We return to our house," he told almost 2,000 loyal ex-staffers and friends...
...Honor of Gaston Le Torch, by Jacques Perret, was one of the most charming extravaganzas of the year, a pleasant escapist whimsy about a Gallic Walter Mitty...
...Akron, 2,000 trade unionists helped raise $2,387,243, in the biggest United Fund campaign in local history. In Detroit's Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel, at the height of the 1955 Torch Drive, four girls, escorted by armed Brinks' guards, dumped $1,471,319 on the speakers' table at a fund-raisers' luncheon. The money was the joint contribution of 66,647 General Motors employees ($1,096,319) and the company itself...
Because of the torch, a sizzling zorch...
...because of a torch,** more repair...