Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Torremolinos, Spain...
...with such pickup partners as Pablo Casals and Jacques Thibaud. When World War I came, he went to Paris and served for a time as a translator for the Allies. Then his friend John Singer Sargent introduced him to a wealthy patroness who arranged for him to play in Spain. He needed a passport, so the lady wangled forged papers through a friend who was the mistress of the Russian ambassador...
Rubinstein was scheduled to play only four concerts in Spain, but his hot-handed treatment of Spanish music so floored the audiences that he crisscrossed the country for 120 additional performances. He was feted and fawned over like a toreador. The Queen Mother, Maria Cristina, invited him to the palace for tea. King Alfonso XIII became an intimate. ("He was the most tone-deaf man I ever knew," says Rubinstein. "From the time he was seven, he was accompanied by a man assigned to nudge him whenever the national anthem was played.") His new success led to a tour...
Expanding to Spain. El Tiempo is still having trouble getting advertising, and expects to lose at least $150,000 before it begins to break even. El Diario, on the other hand, is moving into a larger building this month; more up-to-date presses will enable it to increase its pages from 48 to 60 or more. Encouraged by his New York success, Roy Chalk is now considering starting other editions of El Diario in Miami or Los Angeles. And after a cordial interview with General Francisco Franco last month, he has made some plans to found a highbrow...
...hunched his shoulders together, spreading his arms at the same time. "The idea that economic change must proceed political change is a Marxist doctrine. I am not a Marxist. I am somewhat pessimistic about the future of Spain...