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...gold brocade. Then, afraid of a sound scolding from the abbess, he hid his find, kept his secret to himself. Finally Garcia confided in Archeologist José Luis Monteverde, curator of national property. Monteverde communicated with Madrid and a joint committee of medieval experts, headed by 80-year-old Gomez Moreno, eventually succeeded in getting the nuns' permission to open the tombs...
That Lady (by Kate O'Brien; produced by Katharine Cornell) is ornate claptrap laid in 16th Century Spain and starring Katharine Cornell. The lady in question is Ana de Mendoza y de Gomez, a widowed princess who wore a patch over one eye, and her heart, to her undoing, on her sleeve. Cruel, capricious Philip II was Ana's devoted friend until she became his Secretary of State's enraptured mistress; thereafter the King, out of pique and jealousy, hounded the lovers implacably. The Secretary (Torin Thatcher) escaped at last to Aragon; Ana was kept a prisoner...
...force. Liberals, having healed the division that cost them the presidency in 1946, used their congressional majority to push the election date seven months forward in expectation of victory. The Conservative reply, in an atmosphere hot with political passion, was to choose their most inflammatory rightist, Franco-loving Laureano Gomez, as their nominee, and to throw every government resource into his campaign...
...described was Communist "General Gomez," commander of the Loyalist XIII Brigade, later chief of staff of all the International Brigades. He was really Hans Zaisser, born in 1893 in the Ruhr. In World War I, Zaisser fought as a German noncom. Later he joined the Red military organization (M-Apparat), was a leader in the 1923 abortive uprisings in the Rhineland. When Hitler came in, he fled to Soviet Russia...
...Bogota's plush-and-gold Colon theater, 500 blue-ribboned Conservative delegates last week nominated pouchy-eyed Laureano Gomez, 60, as their candidate in next month's presidential elections. In Colombia, which has seen little peace since the Bogota uprising of April 9, 1948, this amounted to a declaration of bitter political-if not civil...