Word: ferdinands
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...roundabout way, word came to London from Spain that the Festival of Britain's description of Sir Francis Drake as "the first man to sail 'round the world" just wasn't so. Drake set sail in 1577, patriotic Spaniards pointed out, and Portugal's Ferdinand Magellan started in 1519. Though Magellan was killed (on Mactan Island) before going full circle, his crew completed the trip...
...story picks up Columbus at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella, follows him to America and on his triumphant return to Spain. But another voyage brings disillusionment; his crewmen abuse the confidence of the Indians and quarrel over their loot. Columbus himself is finally brought back to Spain in chains-to die with the belated realization that justice and reason are more precious than silver and gold. Best things in Egk's score: a clear song line, dramatic choruses and an effective handling of Spanish and Indian folk tunes...
...with the weight of middle age (55), does not govern alone. Beside him rules his glittering wife Evita, a 5 ft. 2, pale-skinned, dark-eyed, dazzling blonde of 32. Their man & wife dictatorship has few precedents. Some have compared it with the dual reign of Spain's Ferdinand & Isabella. Perhaps a closer parallel in history was established by the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian, who married Theodora, onetime actress and reputedly the most beautiful woman in Byzantium, and enthroned her as co-ruler at his side...
...more powerful voice, nearly three times stronger than any medium-wave transmitter in the U.S.: a new, 135,000-watt station near Munich. The station, paid for by contributions of 16,000,000 Americans, will broadcast to Czechoslovakia for 11½ hours a day. In its first broadcast, Ferdinand Peroutka, exiled Czech parliamentarian and writer who will run the station, told his countrymen: "We know how much effort the Communists stake on reforming your souls . . , But we also know that in the evening when you return home from the daily drudgery . . . between your four walls you say to yourself: "They...
Professor Emil Staiger of the University of Zurich will deliver a lecture tonight in German entitled "Conrad Ferdinand Meyer und die symbolistische Poesie." The lecture, under the auspices of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the Busch-Reisinger Museum, will be given in Room 11, Sever Hall...