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...while old Francisco Bergamin, Spain's Clarence Darrow, argued that his coup had not been a "consummated revolt,'' for which the penalty is death, but a "frustrated rising," punishable with life imprisonment. He smiled when a soldier testified that in ordering him to blow up the Lora del Rio bridge the general had instructed him to "do the least possible damage." When the judges returned a verdict of death General Sanjurjo remarked blandly: "I have been in worse situations...
From Madrid two infantry regiments, artillery and bombing planes started for Seville. General Sanjurjo sent twelve soldiers with a trainload of dvnamite to blow up the bridge at Lora del Rio. These fell captive to a squad of Civil Guards from Cordoba. By nightfall General Sanjurjo was in a panic. Reinforcements from the south had not arrived. Emissaries he sent to nearby towns were caught and jailed. At midnight he summoned General Gonzales y Gonzales, delivered his command to him. Then he collected nine loyal lieutenants including his son, piled them into two automobiles, fled toward the Portuguese frontier...
Married. William Rose Benét, 46, poet, critic, onetime associate (now contributing) editor of the Saturday Review of Literature; and Lora Baxter, 26, actress (The Animal Kingdom) ; in Manhattan. Poet Benét's second wife was the late Poet Elinor Hoyt Wylie...
...publishing business. He caused his irascible and wealthy father a great deal of trouble, particularly when he went to live with a chirrupy little magazine illustrator named Daisy Sage (Frances Fuller). When Daisy goes abroad to study art, Tom falls under the spell of a luscious blonde siren (Lora Baxter) who lures the dazzled young man into marriage, to the anguish of Daisy and to the disgust of Tom's Bohemian cronies and of Regan, Tom's redheaded, ex-prizefighting butler...
Black Tower tries to frighten you with the antics of a maniacal physician who has a gallery full of corpses, mummified and glace-coated, to which he wishes to add a young girl he has picked up. And fails. Co-author is Lora Baxter, who appeared last week in The Animal Kingdom (see above...