Word: gregorios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officers had spun a yarn of a highly organized air force plot to do away with Perón. Laborista political backing was solicited. To overcome Reyes' natural skepticism, conspiratorial meetings were held in the Avenida Quintana headquarters of the Civil Aviation General Administration; Air Force General Gregorio Velez, boss of civil aviation, gave a masterly performance as leader of the plot. Laboristas took the bait...
...Died. Gregorio Martinez Sierra, 66, prolific Spanish novelist-playwright, best known abroad for his Cradle Song (Eva Le Gallienne starred in it during the 1926-27 Broadway season); of cancer; in Madrid, 15 days after ending more than a decade of self-imposed exile...
...seemed as though the prize jury (a museum director, a critic, an artist) liked a little of everything. The prizewinners included Abraham Rattner's Picassoesque, blazing red and yellow Place of Darkness; Gregorio Prestopino's rock-solid study of a train stalled in a flood; Sydney Laufman's impressionistic Road in the Woods, which looked as though it had been daubed on with dirty cotton; Gladys Rockmore Davis' sugar-sweet ballet painting, Pink Tights. Somehow the jury agreed that an almost unknown Californian named Boris Deutsch deserved the $2,500 first prize-for his ragged, muddy...
Probably the most interesting of the lot was Morning Conference (see cut), which won 38-year-old Gregorio Prestopino a $1,500 third prize. Its three construction workers, talking things over on a snowy day, had faces that might have intrigued a Pieter Breughel-or a William Steig...
...many still unsettled questions in still unsettled Italy was whether to remain a monarchy or turn republic. Fiery Gregorio Agnini, 89, who got off a rousing republican speech on the assembly's first day, died during the week. But many another voice in and out of his Socialist Party would still continue to demand that the country have done with the House of Savoy...