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...them. The golf museum was made possible through the munificence of an indefatigable museum founder, tall Archer Milton Huntington, son of Railroad Builder Collis Potter Huntington. Archer Huntington insists that his real hobby is Hispanic studies, not founding museums. He has written several travel books on Spain, translated the epic of the Cid Campeador, introduced Artists Zuloaga and Sorolla to the U. S. Less successfully last winter he sponsored one Cesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós. Argentine illustrator (TIME, March...
...known as "the Master" to U. S.-exiled Cuban revolutionaries, young Rubens caught fire from Marti's fervor, swore he would get in there and fight for Cuban independence. This book is the disarmingly partisan record of how Cuba finally got quit of Spain. His own place in the epic Author Rubens keeps modestly choral: heroes of his tale are Poet Marti, Mulatto General Antonio Macéo, white-bearded, spectacled Máximo Gomez, Cuba herself...
...inquire about him. Says Riviere: "Unfortunately, neither you nor I can do anything except wait." Meanwhile, Fabien's plane is being wrecked in a cyclone over the coast. Riviere knows it but he does not give the order to suspend night flying which his subordinates expect. An epic figure of courage that is the more intense for being vicarious, he instructs the pilot who is waiting to take off with the Europe mail to wait no longer. With Saint Saturnin (see below), Night Flight is a Book-of-the-Month Club offering...
...Author. Born in 1876 in the peasant region of Namdalen, north of Trondjem, Norway, Author Duun has written exclusively of the life of his native parish, though his books are far from parochial. His earlier works (Three Friends, The Good Conscience} were preparatory to his six-volume Juviking epic that follows that family's affairs from times when Progenitor Per Anders fights hand to hand with the Devil, to his descendants' struggles with more modern devilish banks and herring-oil factories. Highly prized by his fellow Norwegians (many of whom read him in English translation rather than...
...Spain's favorite national hero whose legendary exploits are celebrated in the Poem a del Cid, oldest Spanish epic (12th Century). Named Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, he was called El Cid ("the lord...