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...exploit their simple metres and barbaric flair. In Spain and in Europe at large the acknowledged master of this school was Federico Garcia Lorca, a musician and theatrical producer who was shot by Fascist troops in Granada last year. His best poem, written in 1935, was the Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejias (a bull-fighter). Readers who have hair that is capable of rising will feel scalped at several points in this harshly sensuous, musically calculated and fiercely whole-hog song of death, even in the literal translation which A. L. Lloyd prints along with the original Spanish...
...Ignacio the high-born stretched on the stone . . . Now he is finished. The rain enters his mouth. Like mad, his breath rushes from his staved-in chest, and Love, drenched in tears of snow, thaws upon the peaks of the cattle-lands. What do they say? Here lies a stinking silence...
...Harmon Trophy to the "World's Outstanding Aviator" of 1935 went to (1 Edwin C. Musick, 2 Roscoe Turner, 3 Juan Ignacio Pombo, 4 Howard Hughes, 5 Henry F. Broadbent...
Considerably more colorful than the other winners was the dark and handsome youth of 21 who performed the most noteworthy feat for Spain. Juan Ignacio Pombo had been in love with Senorita Maria Elena Rivero Corral since they were children. When her father, a newspaper publisher, moved to Mexico City and took Maria along, Juan was not daunted. He had learned to fly at 16, and his own father had been Spain's first civilian pilot. He would fly 7,000 miles to his sweetheart's side. Juan collected some money in his home town of Santander, bought...
Education? Ignacio Garcia Tellez...