Word: rodrigo
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...courtroom atmosphere was festive rather than grim. In marked contrast with the duchess' last trial (at which she was sentenced to a year in jail-TIME, Jan. 10, 1949), there were no Tommy-gun-toting guards, no uniformed cops. The presiding judge was affable, dapper Major General Miguel Rodrigo, 54-year-old commander of Spain's one & only armored division. General Rodrigo had tried to persuade Madrid's military governor that there were no legal grounds for a trial...
...ever equaled Cesare Borgia's record for quick promotion. Cesare was the bastard son of Vatican Vice-Chancellor Rodrigo Borgia and his mistress Vanozza de Catanei. When he was only six, he was made Canon of Valencia. At 15, he became Bishop of Pamplona; at 16, archbishop of Valencia; at 17, a cardinal. Only the papal throne itself stood ahead of young Cardinal Borgia, but since that was now occupied by his crafty father (who had become Pope Alexander VI), the frustrated youngster started looking around for other worlds to conquer...
...play, a musical set in a mythical Latin-American republic, Anyguay, records in two acts and 12 scenes the efforts of Rodrigo, a jungle dweller, to modernize the sleepy state along the lines of the United States. His knowledge of the U.S. is limited to what he has read in Life Magazine...
Resistance to the revamping immediately is offered by the peons. Robert G. Myhrum '48 and Frederick H. Gwynne '51 play the lead roles of Rodrigo and Pablo, heads of the peons...
From the money usually spent on soloists, the Philharmonic's smart Conductor Robert Whitney, urged on by Mayor Charles P. Farnsley, commissioned six new ten-minute works for $500 each by Virgil Thomson, Darius Milhaud, Roy Harris, Italy's Gian Francesco Malipiero, Spain's blind Joaquin Rodrigo, Louisville's own Claude Almand. Four of the composers were promised another $500 apiece for conducting their own world premieres...