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Divorced. (Francis) Xavier Cugat, 46, Spanish-born bandleader who made the U.S. rumba-constious; by Carmen Castillo Cugat, 40, aunt of Actress Margo; after 17 years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
...blue taffeta, "Argengon" (price: $650). Hermès, famed for his sport dresses, featured his low-necked "Boston." Another newcomer, Pierre Balmain, managed to be very chic and comparatively reasonable: his mauve taffeta and tight-skirted black silk evening gown (price: $360) also had long gloves of matching taffeta. Spanish-born, ex-Communist Balenciaga was the only one who went against the mode. The New York Sun's Judy Barden quipped about Balenciaga's conservative collection: "It reminds...
...imaginative artist with a big idea had a little show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week. He was 41-year-old Jōan Junyer, Spanish-born and Paris-trained, whose five years in the U.S. have jolted him out of plain painting into bold dreams of stage designing. His big idea: stage and dance scenery should actively participate in the performance...
...grew old, writes George Santayana in this second volume of his autobiography, "persons yielded in interest to places." But The Middle Span is mostly about the people the great Spanish-born philosopher knew during his years as a professor of philosophy at Harvard -somnambulistic years he calls them, when his progress was slow, his standing uncertain, and when President Eliot looked on him without approval...
...Julio de Diego, Spanish-born painter-for canvases of architectural and literary fantasy...