Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Intermittent, heavy spring rains last week put a damper on all large-scale attacks by both sides in Spain's civil war. In the Pyrenees to the north snow turned mountain roads into slippery, slimy trails, prevented Rightist troops from making any appreciable gains. At week...
...Pobo Mountain front, just northeast of Teruel which has been quiet since March, Rightist troops under General Jose Varela seized the Leftist key stronghold, Escorihuela, prepared for an offensive against the Teruel-Sagunto highway. On the north Catalan front, brisk Leftist counterattacks regained several strategic villages and Barcelona restored contact with "the Leftist Lost Battalion" (43rd Division). "We prefer to fight where we are with our backs to the French frontier!" announced its commander...
Thousands of fierce-faced, impoverished Albanian tribesmen last week donned their cleanest white blouses, Scanderbeg jackets & white-pleated fustanellas, hopped on their scrawny donkeys and jogged over mountain trails to Tirana, their odorous turbulent capital. They came to celebrate the wedding of their 42-year-old King, Zog I, to a half-American, 22-year-old Countess Geraldine Apponyi of Hungary. Mother and father of the Countess, who prefers her Budapest nickname of "Jerry," are the onetime Gladys Virginia Stewart of Manhattan and the late Count Anton Apponyi of Budapest...
Thomas Mann, great & good German novelist (The Magic Mountain, Joseph in Egypt) who voluntarily quit his native land in 1933 when Hitler came to power announced he would apply for U. S. citizenship this week...
LAUGHTER IN THE DARK - Vladimir Nabokoff - Bobbs-Merritt ($2.50). The European psychological novel of moral decay, represented at its best by the novels of André Gide, Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, is now eclipsed by politically-minded fiction. Sharply reminiscent of such psychopathic fiction, but with an acuteness that raises it above mere imitativeness is Laughter in the Dark, first English translation of a Russian exile. The story tells of a respectable, middle-aged Berlin art dealer who deserts his family for a tart, reaches its climax of corruption when, after he is blinded, she carries...