Word: fernando
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young man, Fernando Gerassi, like a number of Spanish intellectuals including Ortega y Gasset, went to Germany to study philosophy. "I wanted to find out the meaning of life," Gerassi recalls. After studying with such men as Heidegger and Husserl he was disappointed, "I didn't find anything but speculations." To conquer his disappointment he went to Munich to study art history with the great art historian Wolflin. When it came time for him to submit a thesis, Gerassi fooled them again. "I decided to become a painter," he says, "and Wolflin really liked painting so he encouraged...
Former students of Fernando Gerassi now at Harvard and Radcliffe have arranged an exhibit for the internationally known painter at the Paul Schuster Gallery, 24 Palmer Street. It opens tomorrow and will last through June...
...Ministry of Housing; José Solis Ruiz, the new secretary general of the party, was made minister without portfolio. The Falange was furious, called these changes an attempt to deal the party "a death blow." To appease the hotheads, Franco fired the most violently partisan of the Monarchists, Fernando Súarez de Tangil, Count of Vallellano, but at the same time strengthened the position of other Monarchists in the Cabinet. The jubilant Monarchists later threw a huge party at the Ritz...
Owen made two passes, wheeled gracefully over San Fernando Valley for another. The third run was never completed. At Santa Monica, tower operators heard Copilot Archie Twitchell's shocked voice exclaim from the DC-7B: "Midair collision! Midair collision!" Through a burst of radio interference came his agonized report: "We're going down! Uncontrollable! Uncontrollable!" After 34 years, Old-timer Twitchell understood the odds. His last message, clear and calm: "Say goodbye to everybody...
...area strewn with hunks of fallen metal, fragments of Fiberglas insulation, oxygen tanks. Though wreckage had pierced walls and roofs, no one outside the Junior High schoolyard was seriously hurt. From Los Angeles in the wake of the crash came angry demands for federal controls. But in the San Fernando Valley, anger was tempered by sorrow, and death had wiped magic from the air and sparkling sun. Gathering her child to her tightly, a mother said sadly: "Living here will never be the same again. Never...