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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kidnap-murder of ten-year-old Charles Mattson in Tacoma, Wash.; the 1938 kidnap-murder of twelve-year-old Peter Levine in New Rochelle, N. Y...
...acquitted, for the regulations say that nobody is allowed to enter the canal to bathe; they don't stipulate that it is unlawful to get out of it." In the Paris zoo, penguins squatted on ice cakes. In Madrid, which justified its climatic reputation ("Nueve meses de invierno y tres meses de infierno"-nine months of winter and three months of hell), traffic cops performed their duties beneath specially issued red & white parasols...
Died. Walt Kuhn, 68, "the Rembrandt of Show Business," painter of vaudeville and circus subjects (The Blue Clown); after long illness; in White Plains, N. Y. A champion of modern art ("Good painters are never intellectuals; they're simply people with one-track minds"), Kuhn helped run the famed 1913 Armory Show, which introduced the U.S. to Picasso, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Matisse...
Latinos were in no rush to sign up. Said José Mariano Espinoza y Grande, a Mexico City scrap-iron dealer: "I haven't the money, and I wouldn't buy the title [Conde de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe y Peñasco] from Franco if I did have it." Miguel de Rul y Palma, who lives off Mexican real estate and is eligible to be called the Conde de la Valenciana, made it clear that he admired Franco "in all his aspects. But," he added, "I am not paying for the title...
...resort of Aspen, Colo, for a three-week bicentennial festival. They hired the Minneapolis Symphony to play, and assembled a distinguished roster of speakers, including Poet Stephen Spender, Novelist Ludwig Lewisohn, Playwright Thornton Wilder, Alsatian Philosopher-Missionary Albert Schweitzer, and Spain's Philosopher-Teacher-Statesman José Ortega y Gasset...