Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Louis Philippe, "the Citizen King," sent his agent, Baron Taylor, to investigate the possibilities in Spain with 1,327,000 francs ($252,130), got back a staggering 412 Spanish paintings plus 41 Italian and northern works of art. Added to these were 220 canvases willed by Scottish Admirer F. Hall Standish. Together they were one of the Louvre's greatest windfalls and lost opportunities. When Louis Philippe was forced to abdicate, he claimed the works as royal property, and they were sold in London after his death. "One does not dare to think of what the museum would have...
Married. Princess Sandra Vittoria Torlonia, 22, granddaughter of the late King Alfonso XIII of Spain (and, on her father's side, of the late Brooklyn-born hardware heiress Elsie Moore Torlonia), daughter of Don Alessandro Torlonia, Prince of Civitella-Cesi, one of Italy's wealthiest men; and Clemente Lequio, 33, widower, father of an eight-year-old child, son of a onetime Fascist Italian ambassador to Spain; in secret, in Rome. Often mentioned as a possible mate for Belgium's bachelor King Baudoin, Princess Sandra met Insurance Man Clemente five weeks ago, married him in defiance...
...Catalonia-born Maestro Casals, who detests Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco so heartily that he will not play in Spain, moved to Puerto Rico in 1956 from his longtime home in self-exile in the French Pyrenean town of Prades. He played last April at the yearly Festival Casals in San Juan, is now in Prades for a reprise of the festivals he used to hold there. *A Reuters correspondent once needled Munoz with the question: "Yes, but when will Puerto Rico get economic freedom from the U.S.?" Shot back Munoz: "About the same time Britain does...
...Girl in 1895, the jury crowned an American painter. Winner of the international painting award ($2,400): Wisconsin-born Seattle Painter Mark Tobey, 67 (TiME, July 22), whose sensitive oils of squirming lines of light had already attracted critical applause. Top international prize for sculpture ($2,400) went to Spain's Eduardo Chillida, 34, whose spiky forgings were among the most avant-garde entries...
Mechanized Corrida Over the centuries, a system has been developed in Spain for getting bulls who will not fight out of the bull ring. Usually, a few steers driven into the arena will herd the reluctant bull to the exit. Sometimes, men were sent in with long clubs to break the bull's legs so that he could be hauled out by mules. Or the peones, or the matador himself, would lure the bull up to the inner fence where an accomplice could jab a dagger into the base of his skull. In Madrid, as a last resort...