Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asked Madrid's influential royalist newspaper A.B.C., "that all over the world people get up early, work straight through the day. knock off work late in the afternoon and are in bed by midnight−except in Spain...
...through the night and on into the morning the Times waited for what it hoped would be an eyewitness report from Times Madrid Correspondent Camille Ci-anfarra, traveling aboard the Andrea Doria. "We ought to get some good cover age from Cianfarra," said Catledge. But the story never came. Sleeping in his cabin, Timesman Cianfarra, a veteran of more than 25 years, was killed instantly by the Stockholm's ice-crusher bow, along with his daughter...
Unlike the other cubist greats - Picasso, Braque, and the late Fernand Leger - who had to unlearn their earlier styles, young Juan Gris (pronounced Greece) had had only a rudimentary training in Madrid when he moved into the Rue Ravignan in 1906, to be near Picasso. In on cubism from its birth, Gris developed his own style naturally on cubist tenets...
Died. Camilla Maximilian Cianfarra. 49, topflight New York Times correspondent (Rome, 1935-41 and 1946-51; Mexico City, 1942-46; Madrid since 1951). who in 1949 scored a world newsbeat on the Vatican archaeologists' claim to have found St. Peter's tomb beneath the cathedral's high altar in Rome; in the collision-sinking of the Italian liner Andrea Doria, off Nantucket (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Though born in Madrid, far from the rugged Basque region athwart the western Pyrenees, Galindez considered himself a citizen of the short-lived autonomous Basque republic abolished by Generalissimo Francisco Franco.* As an exile in the Dominican Republic (1939-46) and the U.S., Galindez kept in touch with the Paris "government" headed by Jose de Aguirre, first and only President of the Basque republic. Aguirre himself appointed Galindez as the official Basque representative and fund raiser in the U.S. In his half-yearly statements filed with the foreign agent section of the U.S. Department of Justice, Galindez reported taking...