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Died. George Santayana, 88, Spanish-born poet, novelist (The Last Puritan), philosopher (The Sense of Beauty) and onetime (1907-12) Harvard professor who resigned to live in Europe in "the detachment of contemplation"; in Rome...
...Spanish-born Joan Junyer (pronounced Zho-ahn Zhoon-yea) is an artist with a fresh eye who feels confined by frames and flat surfaces. For ten years he has tried to get a sense of volume into his paintings by rejecting the conventional canvas for molded shapes of wood and plaster. His paintings (TIME, July 9) sweep around curves, roll wavelike along walls. Last week Artist Junyer's latest assault on convention was on display at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
Divorced. By Xavier Cugat, 51, Spanish-born rumba maestro: Bandleader Lorraine Allen Cugat, 29; after five years of marriage, two years of court wrangles (she got a divorce last January in Santa Monica, Calif., which won't be final for a year), no children; in Las Vegas...
...Europe, and his photograph was right there to prove it. (What Joe actually said was: Duran was head of something called "S.I.M." in Europe, which was "a counterpart of the Russian secret police.") Duran's reply to the charge, which was first made five years ago: he was Spanish-born, naturalized in 1942; the picture was taken in Spanish uniform, when he was fighting in the Republican army (and not the Red-sponsored international brigade); McCarthy's charges were simply "a translation of an article in Arriba, official organ of the Falange party of Franco Spain, published...
...Spanish-born Jōan Junyer used to paint conventional pictures, showed them for ten years running at Pittsburgh's Carnegie International exhibitions. After Franco took over Spain, Junyer came to the U.S. and earned a new reputation as an innovator. Pictures, he decided, are too limited-because they have to be evenly lighted and looked at headon. So he turned to sculpture-paintings, which are made to fit odd corners as well as flat walls, can be seen from different angles, in changing lights, with an almost unlimited variety of effects. Each angle and light shows a different...