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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pitifully few escaped. Old General José Miaja, Madrid's famed defender, flew with his staff from Valencia to Oran, Algeria. There he predicted that Republican rule would return to Spain "sooner than one might expect." Julián Besteiro remained in Madrid, was arrested, taken to Burgos and was expected to face a military trial early this week. Colonel Casado, chief figure in ousting the civil government of Dr. Juan Negrin from power four weeks ago, escaped to Marseille aboard a British ship. As his last official act he had issued a bogus proclamation to Communist leaders...
...craving of these goldfish cultists," explained Chicago's Consulting Psychologist Robert N. McMurray, "really is for public acclaim, that is, exhibitionism. The eater of goldfish takes delight in the repulsiveness...
Aaron Copland: El Salón Mexico...
Annamary Dickey, as fetching as a cinema heroine, reached the top the way a cinema heroine should. A college and Juilliard School graduate, she has been in the Auditions of the Air sweepstakes since the first, in 1935. Failing that year, she took a job with the Chautauqua (N. Y.) Opera Company, in the 1936-37 competition tried and failed again. That summer she sang with the St. Louis Municipal Opera. Last season appendicitis kept her out. This season she sang in two Broadway flops, felt that her experience had been rounded out, tried again. Successful, she expects to start...
Married. Libby Holman Reynolds (née Holzman), 34, myopic, husky-voiced torch singer (Moanin' Low]; and Ralph Holmes, actor, 23, son of Actor Taylor Holmes and brother of Actor Phillips Holmes; suddenly; in Washington...