Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...startling to many. The last four weeks of the siege of Gijón and its final investiture were performed by Spanish troops alone. At least one foreign correspondent could not find a single cauldron of spaghetti among the rice pots of the Rightists, or a single Italian battalion among the advancing columns.* This was sound Franco tactics. Immediately after the Rightists' formal entries into Málaga, Bilbao, Santander (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.), Italian officers went about making chests to the vast annoyance of their Spanish allies. Today Franco likes to keep Italians out of the headlines...
...with Italy last week on the problem of withdrawal of foreign volunteers in Spain (see above), French and British staff officers had deliberated a situation even more critical in the Balearic Islands. Secret agents at Palma, Majorca had noted unusual activity among the Rightist garrison and the 20,000 Italian troops quartered there, reported that an attempt was about to be made to seize the Leftist island of Minorca. The British and French have been thick in the western Mediterranean ever since the Spanish civil war began, and the New York Times was authority for the announcement that "Precautions were...
Heidi (Twentieth Century-Fox). The story was published in Germany in 1881, and translations began to appear soon after. Ever since then English, German, Italian, Russian, Austrian, French, Swiss, U. S. and Scandinavian children have kept Heidi a bestseller. Like all Shirley Temple stories, Heidi traces the reaction of human wickedness to the Temple dimples; unlike many of them, it has a craftsmanlike dramatic structure...
Died. Alceo Dossena, 60, Italian sculptor who was "born 500 years too late"; of a brain hemorrhage; in Rome. Sculptor Dossena, regarded as a genius in his own right, gained fame by being so adept at copying old masters that he fooled experts. His copies were sold as genuine, brought more than...
Masterpieces at the Carnegie show in abstract or other methods of painting were conspicuously rare. Second prize ($600) was awarded for Woman Near a Table, a semi-nude against a clever perspective, done in sombre blues and browns by Italian Felice Casorati. Neither this nor the third prize ($500) winner, Family Portrait by young Josef Pieper of Düsseldorf, Germany, was distinguished by that finality of excellence which makes good critics stand long and stare. Nazi Pieper's painting, which this year won the State Prize for painting at the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, seemed to many...