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...Manhattan, Enrico Caruso's widow Dorothy finally came right out and said that the only living tenor who comes close to wearing "Rico's" crown is the Metropolitan Opera's Swedish-born Jussi Bjoerling. Said Tenor Bjoerling: "The greatest moment of my life...
...Communist Party, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico, and the International Workers of the World were among the organizations asked...
...Leslie Coffelt, widow of the Blair House guard killed in the attempted assassination of President Truman by Puerto Rican Nationalists last November, flew to Puerto Rico last week. There she received from the hand of Governor Luis Muñoz Marín a medal and a gift of $4,816.59, made up of pennies given by Puerto Rican schoolchildren. Said Mrs. Coffelt: "I, like any other American, cannot hate a country for an act committed by one of its citizens. I shall always remember the kindness shown to me by the Puerto Rican people...
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...
...gamut from watered-down abstractionism to souped-up realism. Basket Bouquet, an impeccable and wholly uninspiring arrangement of lilac smudges by Cape Cod Abstractionist Karl Knaths, took first prize. It looked rather like a flat but tasteful Victorian sampler, translated into the smeary medium of oils. California's Rico Lebrun came in second with Centurion's Horse, a chalky, Picassoid nag, understandably hanging its head in a canvas as dark and narrow as a hall closet...