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...Guinovart, 37, is a Barcelona favorite who started with social realism, then did stage décor for García Lorca plays. The stocky artist turned to collages, attaching everyday apparel to his somber canvases. His Homage to Valdés Leal attempts to express the tremendous force of a 17th century artist in a volcanic surface that belches up actual objects...
...involved d'Entreves deeply, and towards its end the professor engaged in resistance activities in his native province of Vald-Aoste in Northern Italy. Working with British, U.S., French and Italian associates, d'Entreves cultivated the international outlook and understanding that is so much a part of him today. After the War he returned to Oxford to assume the Chair of Italian Studies, which he has filled ever since...
...last week Private Citizen Alemán was unwillingly back in the news. Using the name Miguel A. Valdés (his mother's family name) he took off from New York on a Pan-American Stratocruiser for Paris. He was accompanied by five companions, of whom Mexico City papers named only such notables as Carlos Serrano, ex-president of the Senate, and Antonio Díaz Lombardo, former director of social security and one of the new millionaires of the Alemán administration. Within a few hours the capital buzzed with another name. According to the passenger...
Four days later gangsters fired into the Miramar home of Antonio Valdés Rodriguez, wealthy director of Foreign Commerce, missed him. Then assassins killed the 16-year-old son of Senator and Cabinet Minister Joaquin Martinez Saenz as he drove his father...
Results followed pronto. One Enrique Sanchez del Monte, 47, a wealthy sugar and cattle man, confessed that he had paid thugs $3,000 for the Valdés attempt, $5,000 for the boy's death. Furthermore, he had offered $6,000 for the murder of his beautiful ex-wife Maria who escaped to the U.S. with their two daughters last fortnight. His motive, if true, looked like Balzacian revenge. Valdés and the boy's lawyer-father had won Maria her divorce and custody of the two children...