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First a small-town altar boy, then an anticlerical Republican, then a Socialist, Comorera helped found the Catalonian independence movement in the 1930s, a few years later merged it with the Communists and took command. He was Catalonia's Minister of Agriculture and Economy and its strongman when the civil war broke out. Through the war, he commuted regularly between Barcelona and Moscow to relay party orders. He policed the Catalonian party with his own Cheka, men in black leather jackets, crisscrossed by cartridge bandoleers. Their knock on a door in Catalonia usually meant torture and death...
Spain and Mexico were matched at Cesta Punto (considered the purest pelota form) in the final. Mexico's stocky Fernando Pareyon and Manuel Barrera, a ferocious hitter, were favored by the aficionados over the wiry Spanish brother team, Manolo and Joaquin Balet, sons of a wealthy Catalonian textile manufacturer and oldtime pelota champion. While the Mexican team led a carefree tourist life before the match, Papa Balet whisked his sons off to a secluded retreat...
...Chateau Valrac in the sleepy little Franco-Spanish border town of Prades. Usually, with his huge German shepherd dog Follet trotting alongside, he walks down the road toward the beautiful medieval Abbey of St. Michel de Cuxa, or toward the Canigou, the mountain which lies near the Catalonian border. He seldom heads toward the center of the town; the townspeople of Prades are inordinately proud of Pablo Casals, the great musician who lives among them in self-exile, and he would have to shake the hand of everyone...
Unable to strike at CHADE, March turned his attention again to Barcelona Traction. In February 1948, an obliging judge in the small Catalonian town of Reus declared that, since Barcelona Traction had not paid the interest on its bonds, it was bankrupt. Franco's authorities moved in, evicted Barcelona Traction's officers from their Barcelona headquarters, and ushered in Juan March...
...scholarly, mystic man who led a life of celibate solitude, De Falla began work in 1928 on a great oratorio for soloists chorus and orchestra, based on the Catalonian epic poem, La Atlantida, by Jacinto Verdaguer. When De Falla's Atlantida was finished, he used to tell Argentine friends, he wanted the first performance to be in Buenos Aires...