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Salamanca. The Franco dictatorship was proclaimed at the Gothic walled city of Burgos on July 23, 1936. Since then the Caudillo has moved his headquarters and the military and diplomatic bureaus of his government about 180 miles southwest to golden Salamanca. Salamanca is only 100 miles from Madrid with excellent highway communications to Avila, advance base for the Madrid front, and has direct rail connections with Portugal, a useful back door for German advisers who wish to avoid passing through France. Into this city whose normal population is less than 25,000, over 50,000 people have been crowded...
...distinctly American-skyscraper building- John Russell Pope took little interest. Neither was he affected by the style variously called Functionalism, Modernism. Internationalism, whose father was Frank Lloyd Wright, whose grandfather was Louis Sullivan. While that style was coming of age in the last decade, Architect Pope made Yale Neo-Gothic, Dartmouth Neo-Georgian, designed the grandiose mass of the Archives Building in Washington, adapted Rome's Pantheon for the Mellon gallery and again for the proposed Jefferson Memorial (TIME, April...
...them to homely homiletics. Some of the most important of these tapestries figured in the auction's largest sale-$43,000 each for two 11-by-15-ft. genre scenes, woven circa 1500, of country life at the Château d'Effiat in Auvergne. These Tournai Gothic tapestries went to a New York dealer. For $32,000, the same dealer carried off a rare 16th Century Brussels Gothic tapestry, 13-by-21 ft., depicting the story of the Prodigal Son. For practicing prodigals was the sale's oddest item, a rare Georgian walnut & leather "drunkard...
Under the dome of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, acoustically the finest hall in the country, the Glee Club will offer a program of sixteenth century motets on Friday, May 21, in roder to get the effect of singing in a Gothic cathedral...
...tree-clad ridge near Cumberland, R. I. lies a cluster of austere grey Gothic buildings, laid up in stone during the past 35 years by white-robed members of the Order of Cistercian Monks of the Strict Observance. The 62 men of the Monastery of Our Lady of the Valley-among them a onetime Canadian Northwest "Mountie," a onetime department store manager, a onetime railway construction engineer, a onetime civil engineer, a World War aviator-labor daily in their fields and cowbarns. Save when all of them sing their psalms, recite their orisons, or when a few of them maintain...