Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...without finding their way to the Ocampo salon. At her Mar del Plata villa, brought beam-by-beam from England, or her San Isidro ancestral home where San Martin once plotted Peru's and Chile's liberation, the high talk proceeds preferably in French. "Since infancy," says Victoria, "in the whispering of Argentine alfalfa and wheat I have heard the sound of French verses...
Sunday, Boston in the dimout, the Patagonian lakes, Virginia Woolf, Paul Valery. It has whimsy and charm, but it represents a hybrid culture which Victoria Ocampo has not shed...
...Benedetto Croce, William Faulkner, Thomas Mann. It has forwarded the reputation v of Argentine prizewinners like Jorge Luis Borges, Eduardo Mallea, provided a soapbox for promising Argentine newcomers like J. R. Wilcock, Vicente Barbieri. Sur claims only 3,000 circulation, loses money on every issue, but has wide influence. Victoria foots the bills...
...Victoria Ocampo and Nobel Prizewinner Gabriela Mistral were born on the same day, April 7, but the Chilean poetess is two years older...
...Viscount Gort (John Standish Surtees Prendergast Ve-reker), 59, former Chief of the Imperial General Staff, commander of the ill-fated 1940 British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium; after an operation; in London. A wearer of the Old School. Tie but a tough professional soldier, he won the Victoria Cross in World War I for directing from a stretcher an attack across the Canal du Nord near Cambrai. In World War II he led the British in one of their finest hours (the heroic retreat from Dunkirk), held Malta through the racking bombing of 1942. A soldier...