Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Generalissimo Francisco Franco, ear still to the ground and still a little hard of hearing, let it be known that he wanted Barcelona newspapers to stop calling him Caudillo (Chief). The preferred handle hereafter: "His Excellency the Chief of State...
...Barcelona the haggard refugee and his wife boarded the same Luftwaffe plane with the same Luftwaffe pilots who had flown them in. A few hours later they came down on a U.S. Army airfield in Austria. Rumor said that Traitor Laval had vainly offered his German pilots one million francs if they would head for Portugal. U.S. officers promptly turned Laval over to the French, who flew him to Paris...
...Haiti & Cuba. Junyer's interest in stage design began with ballet, which was a logical development from the pictures he had been painting: ceremonial native dances of Haiti and Cuba. The Picasso-like touches in some of his paintings were equally logical. Junyer grew up in Barcelona, where his father was a collector of Spanish Romanesque art and one of Pablo Picasso's early patrons. When the boy, who lost his hearing while still a child, went to Paris to start his painting career he fascinated the great Pablo by his uncanny mastery of lipreading...
...that he has extended his work beyond the bounds of easel painting, Junyer's Manhattan studio looks more like a handyman's workshop than a painter's retreat. On a shelf rests his most prized possession, a scrapbook about the great Barcelona rugby team of 1924-25, amateur champions of Spain. He was scrum half...
...Spain, was in no mood to exasperate the Allies. Instead of going to the swanky Ritz Hotel, where a suite once occupied by the Duke of Windsor and Heinrich Himmler had been reserved for him, Laval was hustled into forbidding Montjuich, the stone fortress which looms over Barcelona. Into a massive cell (whose rigors were later softened by a spring bed and furniture from the Ritz) moved the unwelcome Frenchman. At his request a radio was installed. The first news he heard was a "Voice of America" program in French...