Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bureaus - LONDON: Andre Laguerre, Gene Farmer, A. T. Baker, Honor Balfour George Voigt. PARIS: Eric Gibbs, Fred Klein, Curtis Prendergast, George Abell. BONN: Frank White, Tom Lambert. ROME: Robert Neville, Lester Bernstein, William Rospigliosi, John Luter. MADRID: Piero Saporiti. JOHANNESBURG: Alexander Campbell. BEIRUT: James Bell, David Richardson. NEW DELHI: James Burke, Joe David Brown, Achal Rangaswami. SINGAPORE: John Dowling. HONG KONG: John M. Mecklin. TOKYO: Dwight Martin, James L. Greenfield. MEXICO CITY: Robert Lubar, Rafael Delgado Lozano. PANAMA: Philip Payne. Rio DE JANEIRO: Cranston Jones. BUENOS AIRES: Ramelle MaCoy...
CONRAD Hilton, who leased Columbus, Ohio's Deshler-Wallick Hotel two weeks ago and will spend $1,200,000 to improve it, this week opened the Castellana Hilton in Madrid, and is now ready to start construction on his $15 million Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif...
Casanova himself had long since testified to a more than passing acquaintance with the artist. Both men were in Madrid in 1767, and Casanova's Memoirs record how he embroiled Mengs in his adventures. One day a beautiful woman invited Casanova to her bedroom, where he was staggered by the sight of her former lover dead on the bed, a dagger in his throat. Undaunted, Casanova threw the body into a stream behind the house, soon after heard that the police were after him. Casanova fled to the house of Mengs, where he hid out until the police finally...
...standard festival fare-Brahms, Beethoven and Schumann -and there was only one complete evening of Spanish music, appropriately devoted to Granada's adopted composer, Manuel de Falla, and one of Spanish dance. But for visitors from other lands the festival had a real surprise: the performance of Madrid's 13-year-old National Orchestra and its conductor, Ataulfo Argenta. The son of a Santander stationmaster, Argenta, 39, made a living as a coffeehouse pianist for a while, then studied in Germany before taking over the Madrid radio orchestra in 1946. There he did so well (80 concerts...
...Sleuth Caturla's most exciting find: magnificent series of ten scenes of The Labors of Hercules, done against mythical backgrounds. For years the ten had gathered dust in the vaults of Madrid's famed Prado Museum. Experts thought that they might be Zurbaran's work, but no one was sure. Rooting around in the archives, Maria Luisa Caturla was rewarded with a faded document bearing the seal of Philip IV's royal notary and stating that Francisco Zurbaran had been paid 1,100 ducats for a series of paintings representing Hercules and his tasks...