Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week two of the more gifted novelists of recent years made art news of a decidedly choice sort. One was the 45-year-old, German-born, U.S.-citizen-to-be, Author Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front). He lent Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries, for non-commercial exhibition, his fastidiously chosen collection of modern and 19th-Century French...
...chief songwriter in that melodious land. He is Ernesto Lecuona. He wrote the famed, romantic air which outsiders could scarcely be blamed for supposing was the Cuban National Anthem-Siboney.* He wrote Canto Karabali (Jungle Drums), Andalucia (The Breeze and I), La Comparsa, Say Si Si, Maria La O, and a host of other numbers which have made Cuban melody world-famed...
...endless Riff campaigns, got to be a major at 23 and the youngest general in a standard European army at 32. His fortunes sagged for a time under the Spanish Republic, then brightened when a Rightist Government came into power in 1935 and his friend, War Minister Jose Maria Gil Robles (now exiled leader of the Catholic CEDA) made him Chief of Staff...
...Petacci family prospered, moved to a palace on Monte Mario. Claretta's physician brother became well-to-do. Claretta's mother became unofficial autocrat of Italian movies. Her sister Maria pleased the Duce, too. She became a radio and film star...
...Santiago, Chile, exiled ex-President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador applied to the Ecuadorian Embassy for a visa to go home. He explained that he had been proposed as candidate of the Conservative and Socialist parties in the June 1944 Presidential elections. Nevertheless, ex-President Velasco Ibarra got no visa. On the Ambassador's desk lay instructions from the Government of President Carlos Arroyo del Rio "not to issue a re-entry permit to Velasco Ibarra nor to take into account newspaper dispatches from Quito saying he could return...