Word: gran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bolivian generals who lost the three-year Gran Chaco War for their country dropped into harmless obscurity after the Peace Without Victory wangled by seven American nations (TIME, June 24). Not so last week the Paraguayan colonels who won the war for theirs...
...that a writer's tools were less expensive, he took to wandering around the Mediterranean countries, "learning to drink wine and to tighten my belt from time to time." Other places seen: the Austro-Italian front (as a war-artist), South America (where he was lost in the Gran Chaco). At 36 he is married, settled at The Hague. One other novel of Fabricius', Lions Starve in Naples, has been published...
...scene opens at Jalna where the Whiteoaks are seated at dinner. As they pass plates of food from one to another around the table their individual traits make themselves felt--the matriarchal acerbity of "gran", the quiet strength and friendliness of Ronny, and the weakness and temperament of young Eden. Before you know it they are all old friends, and their affairs have become important and interesting. To achieve this effect within the first reel or two of a film is quite an extraordinary feat, and one rarely achieved. Not since The Royal Family has it been done so well...
Rudely rocked in Latin America last week was the tradition that after generals have made war diplomats make peace. Utterly deadlocked, diplomats of Bolivia and Paraguay who have been trying to patch up peace during the Gran Chaco War armistice were served rough notice that they can go home and unbutton their spats by the two gruff commanders who fought each other to a standstill, Paraguay's General José Felix Estigarribia and Bolivia's General Enrique Peñaranda. These two extraordinary militarists, who opened the armistice with a champagne luncheon at which they toasted each other on the battlefield (TIME...
Storm over the Andes (Universal) tells an improbable story about an implausible group of wildcat aviators who help Bolivia win a fictitious war-in-the-air over the Gran Chaco. It inevitably portrays a cocky, ready-fisted individual (Jack Holt) whose general unpleasantness includes the fact that he can fly better than his comrades. When Holt falls in love with an unknown, charming lady (Mona Barrie) at a fiesta, she turns out to be the wife of his commanding officer (Antonio Moreno). Holt saves Moreno from perishing in the jungle after a crash, steals an enemy plane, bombs an ammunition...