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...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Schuman's American Festival Overture; McDonald's Santa Fe Trail; Walton's Façade suites; Chabrier's España. Conductor: Izler Solomon...
...hottest day of the year when Evita got the diamond-encrusted Grand Cross of Isabel la Católica from Dictator Franco; but she wore a full-length mink cape. At the special performance of Lope de Vega's classic Spanish drama, Fuente Ovejuna in the Teatro Español, Evita turned up in a long cape of ostrich feathers. At the bullfight, which she held up half an hour by arriving late (the opening was never delayed for Alfonso XIII), Evita again bugged Spanish eyes. She wore her mantilla (traditionally held rigorously straight) over a comb cocked rakishly...
...some 12,000 fugitives from Franco settled in Mexico, most of them in and around Mexico City. They found the language and customs congenial, relief for those who needed it efficient and openhanded. The Cardenas Government offered immediate free citizenship for the asking, set up a Casa de España through which scholars and other refugee intellectuals could carry...
...Indalecáo Prieto, Spain's Socialist ex-Defense Minister and Negrin's bitter enemy. Prieto is supported by the Junta Espaãola de Liberatián (moderate's and Socialists) whose President Alvaro de Al-bornoz calls Negrin "Russia's candidate...
...better known as La Pasionaria ("The Passion Flower") and Republican Spain's most uninhibited orator, was returning from Moscow for the first time since 1939. In Moscow she had been a member of the executive committee of the Communist International and heroine of a Soviet play, Salud España, which closed there because the leading lady "could only make Dolores interesting by making her hysterical...