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...Paolo in Venice is one of the world's great equestrian statues; several casts of it are in U. S. museums. The statue of Giovanni delle Bande Nere (a Medici, only one of the family who ever became a soldier) sits before the Medici church of San Lorenzo in Florence. Its sculptor was Baccio Bandinelli who considered himself a rival of Michelangelo. Michelangelo himself said the statue looked like a sack of melons...
Suddenly an explosion shook the vessel, one Argentine lay dead and five wounded as a result of an improvised time bomb concealed in a beef tin. An hour later pro-Nazi, Hitler-decorated Secretary of the Navy Leon Lorenzo Scasso expediently glossed over the affair: "A fire, source unknown." Threatened by a strong tendency toward native Fascism from within, alarmed by President Vargas' utterances as head of its most important rival for South American leadership, faced by a 30% decrease of European markets since the outbreak of the war (although trade with Britain is way up), Argentina too turned...
...State." He was jailed and tortured. Freed, he retired to his tiny farm, but farming exasperated the most coldly efficient political brain of his century. In 1513 Machiavelli took time out from manuring his fields and in a few months finished the Prince. "Necessity . . . impelled the dedication" to Lorenzo Medici. Lorenzo did not open the book, though he ordered a lackey to take Machiavelli two bottles of wine...
Three days of ceremonial ended when El Caudillo motored 30 miles west of Madrid to the vast and gloomy Monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial. There, in a large hall adjoining what were once the monastery's royal apartments, Generalissimo Franco received the diplomatic corps. Thus ceremonially ended Spain's third and bloodiest civil war of modern times...
...weeks' pay for the rest of the cast of Coquette when Mother MacArthur's confinement closed the show. Unsuccessful defense by Mr. Harris: that Mary's birth was "an act of God." † Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt last fortnight "adopted" a Spanish Civil War orphan, Lorenzo Murias, 12, through an organization called the Foster Parents Plan for Children in Spain, by which refugee children are kept in France at a cost to U. S. foster parents of $9 per month...