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Soon after he came to the U.S. from Spain in 1924, Painter Julio de Diego found himself with exactly 25^ to his name. He paid a dime for a ride to the top of the Woolworth Building (then the world's tallest), and gaily flung the other 15^ over Manhattan's skyline. Says De Diego: "I wanted to start from scratch...
Kitchen Murals. In his 53 years, wiry, cadaverous De Diego (who claims that he has gypsy blood) has tried his hand at everything from bullfighting to being the husband of a stripteaser. The son of a Madrid jeweler, Julio (pronounced "Hoolio'' even in Manhattan) left home at the age of 15, when his father objected to his artistic bent. He painted scenery for the Madrid opera, danced in Serge Diaghilev's ballet, went into the Spanish army to fight the Rifs in Africa. In 1923 De Diego set out to see the world. After his defiant gesture...
...bloc of other PAR deputies, embarrassed at what they called Pace's "indiscretion," hastily removed him from the party's secretary-generalship. In his place they named Julio Estrada de la Hoz, a member of Guatemala's U.N. delegation. But Estrada de la Hoz, in the judgment of most Guatemalan political observers, is well to the left of Paco Fernandez...
...JULIO C. GAMAS MARIN...
Exchange of Pleasantries. In New London, Conn., Julio Recanati, 45, father of twelve, arrested and held for a mental examination after writing a series of love letters (including one of 465 pages) to an unmarried woman, explained: "There never was any serious purpose in my mind ... I thought maybe she'd say 'hello...