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...Down 3-2 at the half, Lisbon's Benfica soccer team rallied on two goals by 19-year-old Eusebio da Silva, defeated Real Madrid, 5-3, to retain the European...
Looking as gaunt as a secondhand scarecrow, Husband Eddie Fisher flew back from a TV performance in Lisbon and hurried to his sick wife's bedside. Actor Richard Burton-who plays Mark Antony in the picture-flew in from Paris, where he had been moonlighting in a minor part in The Longest Day. Meanwhile, rumors flew every which...
Abstraction Ran Out. In time. Jan got to Spain, to Lisbon, and finally to the U.S. He worked as a dishwasher, a factory worker, a day-camp instructor; but in 1945 he decided to devote himself to painting. He studied at the Art Students League, six months later switched to the school run by Hans Hofmann, the most influential teacher of U.S. abstract expressionism. But Müller could not follow so doctrinaire a master for long...
Delgado lost five more days dickering unsuccessfully for horses to cross the border, finally risked driving into Portugal by bus through a guarded checkpoint. Limping, stooping and squinting "like somebody out of a horror movie," Delgado was admitted without question, and headed straight for a grubby pension in Lisbon. "I was used to living in palaces," says he disgustedly...
With Varela Gomes badly wounded, his followers seemed at a loss. They exchanged brief fire with soldiers and security police who moved on the barracks, and then fled. The Under Secretary for the Army, Lieut. Colonel da Fonseca. raced down from Lisbon to take charge, but as he approached the barracks on foot he was shot dead, probably by one of his own trigger-happy men. Two insurgents were killed at Beja and 13 captured, including the badly wounded Varela Gomes. Five more were seized at a fishing port, where they had hoped to escape...