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...started as a pilot in 1937, Iberia is beginning to expand into the transatlantic market. Last August the line inaugurated its first U.S.-Madrid flight with three nonstop Lockheed Super-Constellations, bought entirely with its own profits. Says President Paz, whose three new Super-Connies are named the Pinta, Niña, and Santa Maria, after Columbus' tiny fleet: "Our crossings will build a sort of aerial bridge, subtle and invisible, on the common ground of friendship...
...pilot who has been blinded by antiaircraft fire. Director Andrew Marton wisely keeps the wisecracks to a minimum, while the Ansco Color and a skillful interlarding of Defense Department film give moviegoers the illusion of knowing exactly what it was like to make a bombing run on Wongsang-ni...
...first act goes back to 1822 or 1826 (the date is uncertain), when a French aristocrat with an unlikely name, Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce, and a Parisian scene-painter named Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre developed the professionally workable "daguerreotype." It was so successful that a French cartoon soon complained that half of mankind had become "daguerreocrazed," while the rest was "daguerreomazed."*Everything in sight was caught on the magic plates-Victor Hugo's hand, the moon, the 30th reunion of the Yale class of 1810, President John Quincy Adams (first U.S. President ever photographed...
Poet William Butler Yeats fell madly in love with her, addressed many of his loveliest lyrics to her. She starred in his play, Cathleen ni Houlihan. Very tall (6 ft.), wearing her Paris clothes carelessly in those days, she was, in George Bernard Shaw's words, "outrageously beautiful." She wore a clasp in which was set an English musket ball that had killed a Frenchman fighting for Ireland. Yeats's love turned to despair when he found that neither spiritualism nor poetry could purge her mind of the British, and he wrote sadly...
...whom spoke Spanish. They had been told only that their expected visitor "understands English, but does not speak it." The children soon grasped the meaning of Rivera's phrase ("Enter"), and repeated the invitation to come in. Rivera smiled and walked in with a greeting: "?Buenos dias, ni...