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...CRIMSON received the following letter dated February 4 and supposedly from a Harrison Smith, Hotel Suizo, Barcelona. It was headed "Clandestine Sheet of the Students of the University of Barcelona," and contained a terse note from the students to the effect that "the senders address is ficticious...
...Bauhaus School under Walter Gropius. It was at the Bauhaus that Architect Marcel Breuer designed the first chrome metal chair, whose descendants now populate the land as lawn or kitchen furniture. In Berlin, Mies van der Rohe first developed the cantilever metal chair, went on to produce the famed "Barcelona" chair, designed for his sumptuous German Pavilion at Barcelona's 1929 International Exposition. For the Barcelona chair he used chrome-plated stainless steel, covered the cushions with sumptuous kid leather. Cost of the chair today, done in hand-sewn natural leather...
...told my wife that Charlie would call it like Black Jack-and he did." Charlie has spent a night in jail (in Florida, when MPs arrested him for overcelebrating V-E day and adding a bright red tie to his uniform), hitchhiked 4,000 miles around Europe, swum near Barcelona and skied in Switzerland. Says a friend: "He has never wanted for girls. They're usually attractive and not intellectual fireballs." Charlie can even cook. His specialty: chicken pilaff...
...boycott began to affect downtown shops, bars, restaurants, theaters and even (for Catalonians, a big sacrifice) soccer games, Barcelona became like a dead city. There were whispers of a general strike. Clandestine pamphlets appeared, citing "the incapacity of some authorities" and demanding their dismissal. The boycott bore the mark of some planning, but by whom? An informed guess was that disaffected young Falangists were its base organizers...
...Rafael Cavestany, alarmed by Spain's drift, presented Franco with draft laws for a totalitarian state headed by the Falange Party. Franco stalled. A fortnight ago Arrese and Cavestany resigned. But faced with the unrest that is stirring throughout Spain (riots in Seville as well as boycotts in Barcelona), the Falange bosses last week withdrew their resignations...