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...leave Spain, and sent three companies of assault guards to Teruel to see that Leftist militiamen kept order, took no vengeance on Rightist soldiers and civilians "surrendering with honor." By evening, when most of the civilians had been evacuated from the besieged garrison, Lieut. Colonel Rey d'Harcourt, who with his garrison had been on the verge of starvation for six days, surrendered in person. Captives totaled 40 important officers, 2,450 other ranks and about 3.000 civilians. Among the last to surrender was the Church Militant in the person of Anselmo Polanca Fonseca, Bishop of Teruel. Conducted...
TRANSGRESSOR IN THE TROPICS-Negley Farson-Harcourt, Brace...
...second volume of his autobiography,* had to plow through 396 close-packed pages of memories, opinions, tributes to old friends, quotations from pious writers, fragments from, old diaries. But to balance these they could get 1) a good account of how The Art of Thinking, rejected by Harper, Harcourt Brace, Macmillan, Scribner, became a best-seller (total sales: more than 400,000 copies); 2) some shrewd observations on U. S. women, embedded in praise too fulsome to be called flattery; 3) an account of a heroic career as a lecturer that once carried the abbe through 39 lectures in less...
...WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENTS-Harcourt, Brace...
HEINRICH HEINE: PARADOX AND POET -Louis Untermeyer -Harcourt, Brace (Two vols...