Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getaway. From Munich it was a clean getaway across Germany to Strasbourg, across France slowly to Perpignan. He climbed wearily over the Pyrenees into Spain, eventually reached the British Consulate at Barcelona. Horned Pigeon is an almost day-by-day account of these adventures, in the tradition of Cage-Birds, The Tunnelers of Holzminden and other "escape books" of World War I. Like them it makes exciting reading, until Escaper Millar's lapse into bitter irrelevance at the end. His publishers think that the postscript, and the pained significance of the title (the pigeon, released from a foreign cage...
When Franco rose against the Republic, the old labor chieftain rushed to its defense, became head of the Government. He organized Madrid's defenses, armed the labor unions. He sounded like his old Barcelona anarchist competitors when he growled: "I would like to see every bricklayer go to work with his rifle slung on his shoulder. Then I know that nothing could exist in Spain except the will of the great mass of the Spaniards...
Coming from Barcelona and a chair of Arabic and Spanish Literatures in the university of that city, Pedro Grases has been appointed visiting lecturer in Spanish to share the load of Spanish 4b and 11b with William Berrien, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, and to give a new course on Hispanic Civilization...
Appelles Fenosa, the sculptor who molded the statue Oradour as a reminder to future generations of the tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane, France, is not of French nationality as reported [TIME, Dec. 31]. Fenosa is a Catalan, born at Sant Marti de Provençals, near Barcelona, in 1899. . . . When Fenosa was 20 years old [he] went to Paris. He returned to his native Catalonia in 1931. He was awarded several first prizes in sculpture by the Catalan Government. His best known works are Maternity and The Three Graces, of which there is a copy in New York...
Died. José Maria Sert, 69, muralist in the grandiose manner (his best known works adorn the League of Nations council chamber, the main lobby of Manhattan's RCA Building, the Waldorf-Astoria Sert Room); in Barcelona...