Word: colombia
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...students were handpicked by Professor Abbott, include: two film critics; an illuminator of manuscripts: three C. C. N. Y. undergraduates; Dr. Hermogenes Garavito, up from Colombia to get tips on the foundation of a film industry by his government; a rich girl, and (Most Attentive Student) the Rev. John J. McClafferty, executive secretary of the National Legion of Decency...
...always is fertile of ideas about governing other countries, has batted out a number of notions on the Spanish problem. The latest school of thought is that the best possible solution is partition, the historical model presumably being Panama, which revolted (with U. S. help) and split off from Colombia...
...Sikorsky had come up from Santiago, making a land stop at Guayaquil (Ecuador), a water stop at Tumaco (Colombia), heading for its final land stop at Cristobal in the Canal Zone. Pilot Stephen Dunn, Wartime Navy flyer and six-year veteran on P.A.G. runs, approached the field through thick cloud and heavy rain, passed over the zone of silence extending straight up from the field's radio beacon, radioed that he was backtracking to make a landing. It seemed most likely that while he was spiraling down, the sea loomed up at him too suddenly through the murk...
...Others: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay...
Gian-Carlo Menotti was born near Milan. His father was a wealthy importer who did business with Colombia. His mother taught Gregorian chant in a local church. Save for her, young Gian-Carlo had little music instruction until he was 18. In that year Father Menotti died, and Gian-Carlo went to South America to set tle his accounts. Later, in New York, he met Rosario Scalero of Curtis Institute who got him a scholarship there...