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...Authentic Blueblood." The legacy made all of Carmen's daydreams come true-a palace in Seville, a ranch in Andalusia, three houses in Granada, a mansion in San Sebastián, stocks, bonds, and millions of pesetas in cash. The Trigos were beside themselves with joy. They uncorked the Manzanilla. The janitor and some friends stopped in to see what the commotion was about and left to publish the good tidings. By morning the news had spread to the papers in Madrid. Gifts poured in from fashion houses and perfume firms. A local bank placed a 100,000-peseta...
...letter to a Spanish weekly, one Marqués de Castelvel, whose hobby is heraldry, pointed out that the title Escalona del Valle did not and never had existed in Spain. Newspapers sent their far-flung reporters scurrying. They found that there was no mansion in San Sebastián, no ranch in Andalusia, no palace in Seville, no stocks and no cash. When Valencia's Bureau of Criminal Investigation stepped in, the whole truth emerged: Faustino was not even a lawyer, but a law student who had flunked out; his documents were all forgeries...
...movie where I saw your latest MARCH OF TIME, Inside Fascist Spain (TIME, May 10). It meant a great deal to me, because you see I've been in Spain from 1932 to 1939. I fought with the Republic in 1936 in the north of Spain, at San Sebastián, Bilbao, Santander, and Gijon. Then I was captured and spent 17 months in 13 concentration camps. And your film brings out the true issue of Spain so that it makes me feel that, even though I was only 18 at that time, I was on the right side...
...neighboring Portugal.* He welcomed home General Agustin Muñoz Grande, recently decorated (by Hitler) commander of the Falangist Blue Division fighting in Russia. From his train window at the border, the general shouted: "Long live the mothers who begat the most valiant soldiers in the world." At San Sebastián Falangist crowds cheered his prophecy of "certain Nazi victory over Russian Bolshevism." As forgetful of Spain's claimed neutrality as Franco was in addressing the Falangist National Council (TIME, Dec. 21), the Falangist crowds set up their old cry for the return of Gibraltar, chanted cheers...
...Santos Dumont airfield one day last week, began loading up for its regular Sāo Paulo run. Up the steps walked the passengers: Cuban Minister to Brazil Alfonso Hernández Catá, Rockefeller Foundation's yellow-fever researcher Dr. Evandro Chagas, Norwegian Consul Alexander Stabell Grieg, Sebastiāo Leme Salles, nephew of Rio's Cardinal Archbishop, eleven lesser wigs. Heading into the wind, the VASP airliner roared across the field, lifted easily into a climbing turn...