Word: haiti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Haiti & Cuba. Junyer's interest in stage design began with ballet, which was a logical development from the pictures he had been painting: ceremonial native dances of Haiti and Cuba. The Picasso-like touches in some of his paintings were equally logical. Junyer grew up in Barcelona, where his father was a collector of Spanish Romanesque art and one of Pablo Picasso's early patrons. When the boy, who lost his hearing while still a child, went to Paris to start his painting career he fascinated the great Pablo by his uncanny mastery of lipreading...
...other European centers, and for ten years running in the Carnegie International show at Pittsburgh. In 1936 he returned to Spain to become a Government art consultant. The Spanish civil war blasted him into wide wanderings-back to Paris, to London, then to the U.S. by way of Haiti and Cuba. With him came his vivaciously pretty wife Dolores Canals, an expert on child psychology and care...
...bloodstained boundary between Haiti and the Dominican Republic was threatened with bloodshed again. According to persistent reports, "incidents" along the frontier were approaching a state of undeclared war. Said one Dominican exile in a nearby country: "Not a day passes without some Haitian being murdered in the Dominican Republic." Said a Haitian official: "I expect there will be a war within two or three months...
...country, and later married her. In Argentina, from 1939 until his recall, he rode the ups & downs of U.S. prestige like a veteran gaucho. In the years between, he was in Tokyo at the time of the Nanking incident, helped get the U.S. Marines out of Haiti, survived Chile's disastrous 1938 earthquake. His dispatches continued to be unruffled, incisive, informative...
...Saluda, Va., his wife and four-year-old daughter are waiting out the war.) He was a youngster of 19 when he shipped as a private in 1917. During World War I he chafed aboard ship, a bored, seagoing marine. He saw more action after the war. In Haiti he won the Haitian Military Medal. In Nicaragua he twice won the Navy Cross. He served with the Horse Marines at Pekin, with the famed Fourth at Shanghai...