Word: corvillon
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...white satin suit was ready, and his playmates were all talking about their own first communions in the Roman Catholic Church, the next day; but six-year-old Benito Corvillon persuaded his mother that he simply couldn't go through with it. That, 29-year-old Benito now believes, began a career that has since shocked a number of his fellow Spaniards...
...Thing to Fear. Spain's Civil War was hard on the Corvillon family. Because they stayed at their jobs in Loyalist Madrid they were in the Franco government's Dad books when the war ended. Benito's father was fired, and Benito himself was thrown into jail without trial or specific charges. For nine months he was awakened each morning by the firing of execution squads, wondering if he would be next...
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