Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madrid, 2,000 teleficionados paid 15 pesetas ($1.40) a head to see a special RCA exhibition: Spain's first telecast of a bull fight. When the image blurred at the big moment, a few yelled "estafa" (swindle) and got their money back...
...Raphaelites and "Ruskin, don't you know . . . silly old thing." He ignored the principles of art for art's sake, detested Gauguin and Van Gogh. His advice to one of his own disciples: "Begin with Franz Hals, copy and study Franz Hals, after that go to Madrid and copy Velasquez...
...Madrid, Carmencita Franco, gently curved daughter of the well-rounded Generalissimo, let it be known unofficially that she was keeping company with Dr. Cristobal Martinez Bordiu, that they would probably announce their engagement officially in the fall...
Rumpled, dark-eyed Bernardo Ibáñez has worked most of his 45 years at bettering the workers' lot. As a country schoolteacher, he organized Chile's first teachers' union. Back in Chile in 1936, after he had been wounded fighting the Franco forces at Madrid, he organized the Chilean Workers Federation (C.T.Ch.), which he soon made one of the most powerful in Latin America. At a labor conference in Mexico he became a friend of Vicente Lombardo Toledano, and returned to Chile with such a Mexican accent and so many scrapes, that Chileans still call...
...born 30-odd years ago in the Spanish town of Albacete. He married young, went to Madrid and studied to be a schoolteacher. Too poor to finish his courses, he became a construction worker, unionist, extreme leftist. In the Civil War, he fought on the Ebro, had a big chunk shot out of his back. He went to Mexico, worked for the Spanish Republican exiles. After World War II, he slipped back into Spain, became a key Communist organizer...