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Spanish Concert Guitarist Andrés Segovia, last reported in a Madrid hospital for a detached-retina operation (TIME, Aug. 3), was up and about with exciting news: "My operation was completely successful, thank God, thanks to the skill of the doctors and thanks to my 'good-natured nature...
...Madrid, Spanish Concert Guitarist Andres Segovia, 59, was rushed to the hospital for surgery after suffering a sudden detachment of the retina of his right eye. With his left eye also in danger, weeks will pass before Segovia's doctors can tell whether his eyesight will be saved. Before entering the operating room, Segovia asked for his guitar, closed his eyes, and played before a rapt audience of doctors and nurses. "Now I know I can go on playing even if I remain blind for the rest of my life," he said...
...Spain last week, all musical roads led to Granada. There, to the historic shadows of the old Moorish Alhambra, came a crowd of festival fans and such internationally famed performers as Guitarist Andrés Segovia, Harpist Nicanor Zabaleta, Ballerina Margot Fonteyn and the Sadler's Wells Ballet. For Granada, it was the windup of a fortnight of music and dance, the second in two years, which the city fondly hopes will become an annual affair eventually rivaling Bayreuth, Salzburg and Edinburgh...
...week's end the Falangists gathered in the throne room of Segovia's Alcazar: a mere 300 Blue Shirts, a few army officers-some wearing the German Iron Cross-and three former army chaplains. Presiding was General Moscardo, defender of Toledo's Alcazar. At night the Falangists paraded Segovia's floodlighted streets, singing songs and shouting Falange slogans...
...idea was first put forward by mustachioed Pascual Marin, fanatical young (35) Falange boss of Segovia: take the blue shirts out of mothballs and stage a rally of the old guard. Labor Minister Jose Antonio Giron, leader of the Falange extremists, was all for it, but there was opposition from 1) Falange moderates, happy in their cushy government jobs; 2) the monarchists, who fear that a reawakening of Falangist activity may mean the end of Pretender Don Juan's chances of getting the throne; 3) the army, one of whose spokesmen said: "We prefer commemorating wars in which...