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...pilots fly to Smith every year for a week-end. Competition centers around liquid consumption and maneuvers are restricted to terra firma. Results have never been announced...
...Lazaro Galdiano was a 13-year-old in his native village of Beiré, Spain, when he bought his first work of art-a terra cotta angel's head that cost less than a dime. Within a few hours, his rambunctious kid brother had smashed the piece for a joke. Jose, the son of a broke nobleman, found money hard to come by, but when he got his hands on cash he spent it on art. Through the years he became a professional art dealer and a multimillionaire, filled a palatial, 34-room house in Madrid with treasures. Last...
...collection included such old masters as Da Vinci, Rembrandt, Rubens, El Greco and Goya, plus masses of coins, medallions, jewels, miniatures, tapestries, antiques, ivories, armor, enamels and sculptures. It was always open to visitors-with two notable exceptions. The first was the brother who had smashed his terra cotta. The second was William Randolph Hearst -"That I will never allow," snorted Lazaro. "He started the Spanish-American...
...Lazaro packed his new acquisitions aboard a liner, headed home. Franco had relented a little; Lazaro was allowed to take over his own house. There, three years ago, he died, after gratefully willing his house and collection to the state. The brother who smashed the terra cotta got nothing, lives in a poorhouse...
...Chile and Leguía in Peru. It does not compare unfavorably with the picture a dozen years ago, when Vargas was dictator in Brazil, Ubico in Guatemala, Martinez in El Salvador, Carías in Honduras, Benavides in Peru, Busch in Bolivia, and Terra in Uruguay...