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...None Other ..." Soon afterward, a poor worker, José Trigo Villar, and his wife Concepción came to the home to adopt a child. They chose blue-eyed, blonde-curled Maria. "You are taking away a real marquesita" said one of the nurses at the home. José Trigo remembered the remark often during the next quarter-century when, hounded by poverty and civil war, he tramped up & down Spain in search of a living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: For 15 Days | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...Cavalcanti with the intention of getting it out of books and to the consumer or recipient. When I can sit in the electrician's kitchen in Rapallo and hear the words (I mean understand which word is which not merely hear a blurr of melodious noise) of Maitland. Marquesita, Ferrari and R. Collignon singing Villon's poems in London I have done more than when I wrote a book about past literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1933 | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

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