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...younger generation of philosophers, Santayana did not appear to be dealing with philosophical questions, and indeed there are no Spanish philosophers and never have been. But there have been a number of distinguished essayists, unsystematic, highly individual intermediaries between personal agony and philosophy: writers like Unamuno and, later, Ortega y Gasset. To this group of brilliant egoists Santayana really belongs. His real excellence lay in literature. He was a good minor poet of the severe kind, and understood, quite well, that he had been torn away in childhood from the sources of passion which feed great poetry...
...discreetly rooting for Najdorf. Reshevsky made short work of his final opponent, Manhattan's Dr. Edward Lasker, whipping him in 38 implacable moves when Lasker overstepped his allowable time limit of 40 moves in 2¼ hours. Interest promptly centered on the match between Cuba's Rogelio Ortega and Najdorf, who moved into a technical position known to chessplayers as a Sicilian defense. After six feverish, hours and 60 moves, Najdorf finally gained an attacking advantage, turned it into a game-ending checkmate, and tied for top honors with Reshevsky...
Born. To Maria del Carmen Franco y Polo, Marquesa de Villaverde, 24, only child of Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco, and Cristóbal Martinez Bordiu Ortega y Bascarán, Marques de Villaverde, 29; their first child, a daughter. Name: Carmen. Weight...
Devotion & Cold Eyes. Writing on a fellowship granted by Catholic Publisher Bruce, Biographer Gary MacEóin (pronounced MacOwen) hammers away determinedly at the contention of such scholars as Spanish Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset and Princeton Professor Américo Castro that Cervantes was a free-thinking man of the Renaissance who included devout passages in his work only because the cold eye of the Inquisition was on him. To prove his case, he offers dozens of devout quotations from Cervantes' works, and adds that since "not a single line [was] erased by [Inquisition censors] during...
After Cuba's Ambassador Luis Machado y Ortega presented his credentials to President Truman last week, reporters crowded round to ask the new envoy about Cuban sugar exports. "Cuba will give you all the sugar you need," Machado assured them, "[but] how about some ballplayers? This is one way of sending technical assistance to the U.S.-Point Four in reverse, you know...