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...drooping over his incandescent eyes and talking, always talking "as if he were pursued." Two days after the Spanish civil war broke out, Malraux dashed off to join the Loyalists, explaining, "I am always more comfortable in a revolution than in a salon." There he organized and ran the España squadron, a collection of ancient planes begged, bor rowed or bought from anywhere and everywhere, some so inadequate that bombs were dropped by hand through toilet holes and gunners defended themselves by firing pistols at antiaircraft fire. The planes were flown by a motley crew of hired mercenaries...
...delete titles; 4) if there are four (names, make an initial of the second; 5) if the name is still too long, make an initial of the fourth. Thus, Antonio Orlando Sanchidrian Palmero, a charter subscriber to LIFE EN ESPAÑOL, became A. O. Sanchidrian P., for purposes of his file card...
...editor in chief of TIME Inc. Matthews will survey the editorial possibilities of a TIME-in-Britain-a new creation which would grow out of the U.S. newsmagazine formula. Such a TIME-in-Britain, if Matthews' explorations prove fruitful, would be as major an innovation as LIFE EN ESPAÑOL (TIME...
Barcelona's leading La Vanguardia Española praised the company's stars, Maria Tallchief, Nora Kaye, et al., and Choreographer Balanchine, who "does not sacrifice technical virtuosity for theatrical effects." But it concluded that, on the whole, the company's "interpretive rigidity is somewhat disappointing...
...married a wealthy widow from Argentina, founded a topflight cultural magazine, La España Moderna. Lazaro's collection included such old masters as Da Vinci, Rembrandt, Rubens, El Greco and Goya, plus masses of coins, medallions, jewels, miniatures, tapestries, antiques, ivories, armor, enamels and sculptures. It was always open to visitors-with two notable exceptions. The first was the brother who had smashed his terra cotta. The second was William Randolph Hearst -"That I will never allow," snorted Lazaro. "He started the Spanish-American...