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When Painter Joan Miró, 68 - short, round-faced and seemingly as placid as a Buddha-withdrew from France to his studio home on Majorca five years ago, an uneasy lethargy settled over him. He imposed "a silence on myself. A fast." Instead of painting, he sat and thought. Then, two years ago, catastrophe." Systematically he tore up scores of paintings that he had done on cardboard, obliterated nearly a hundred done on canvas-an act roughly equivalent to burning up $3,000,000. "The paintings uttered soft cries when they saw I was destroying them," sighs...
...many of their compatriots swept in to join them, they leaped into Italy. On the Isle of Capri they met each other coming and going. They sneaked over to Portofino, but the word got out, and now it's finito. Then they established a beachhead in Spain-Majorca, the Costa Brava -but soon that old Henry James feeling set in again. They switched surreptitiously to Jamaica and the Virgin Islands, and got overrun before they could unpack...
Right Hand, Left Hand. Bargains, legal and otherwise, have never failed to interest Juan March. Son of a Spanish peasant who was also a small-time smuggler, he was born on the Balearic island of Majorca, had little formal schooling, was largely self-taught. With only a $300 inheritance from his father, he set himself up in the smuggling trade while still in his teens, showed such talent that he soon had a fleet of schooners smuggling tobacco into Spain from North Africa. By 1914 he was displaying the trappings of respectability: his smuggling fleet was so large that...
This year 123 sponsors put up a formidable candidate: protean Poet-Novelist Robert Graves, who lives on Majorca with his family, two poodles, a passel of cats and a donkey. He promised to lecture "about poetry" because "at universities they don't know anything about it." Kingmaker Starkie got herself nominated, and Rival Gardner quickly followed suit. Oxonian purists then went to the desperate length of putting up Cambridge University's frosty Critic F. R. Leavis, the scholarly exponent of Novelist D. H. Lawrence...
Revisiting Majorca, where they honeymooned briefly four years ago, Monaco's Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace went to the bullfights, where three matadors each dedicated a bull to Grace. A new highmark in immodesty was attained by Matador Chamaco (Antonio Borrero), rated Spain's No. 1 sensation not long ago. As he tossed his hat to Grace, Chamaco grandiloquently cried: "To the most beautiful princess in the world-from the best matador...