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Plugging along at a good clip, with a night mistral lashing her buttocks, the Italian motor ship Orazio last week made for Barcelona. She lay 38 miles south of Toulon. Below decks slept 412 passengers -an aviator with his two small children, four nuns warm in their cotton gowns, the noble counselor of the Italian Embassy in Chile, merchants, soldiers, teachers, tourists. On the bridge the petty officers mumbled against French wind, and against the French contraband authorities who had detained the Orazio four hours to search her and take off some Germans. Captain Michele Schiano was a happy...
...fathered this necessitous technique was Dr. Josep Trueta, onetime head of the department of surgery at Barcelona's General Hospital of Satalunya, now in London. Last fortnight the British Medical Journal reprinted an address which Dr. Trueta made before the Royal Society of Medicine. Society members found Dr. Trueta's methods "iconoclastic," "revolutionary," "momentous." All agreed that "closed plaster casts" such as his might prove to be "the methods of surgical election" in World...
...show World War II halted). Perhaps no other artist could survive so big a one-man show so well. It ranged from an academic study of moonlight and roses, painted in 1898 when Picasso was 17 and had already set himself up as an independent artist in Barcelona, to 1939 portraits in which he practices artistic schizophrenia and tries to catch several views of a face at once...
...Paris and Barcelona, Picasso painted the sombre, introspective canvases of his "Blue Period." By 1904 he returned to live in Paris, permanently, and in swift succession followed the "Harlequin," "Rose" and "Negro" periods. By 1908 he was pioneering in cubism, with a side foray into pasted paper compositions. Picasso's seven years' designing for the Russian Ballet, beginning in 1917, led him into a neo-classical realism, culminating in the sculptural Three Graces (see cut) of 1924. Year later his classicism came to a violent end with his painting, The Three Dancers (see cut), which left...
...proud of being a Spaniard now that the Spanish people are fighting to save their own culture." Luis Mira, former professor at the University of Barcelona and inspector of psychiatry in the Spanish Republican Army, said at a meeting sponsored by the Teachers' Union in behalf of the Spanish Refugee Campaign...