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...Falange had set up its own form of Auslandsdienst to carry the gospel of Hispanidad to the New World and reestablish Spain as the dominant cultural, economic and political influence in Latin America. El Caudillo dreamed of empire. In this exuberant period, there must have been at least a half-dozen occasions when Falange extremists almost carried the day for war, for an imperialist adventure to unify and recreate Spain. But Franco always decided to wait a little longer...
...script writing-it is baseball. Ever since a day, 22 years ago, when Ruby stopped in New Rochelle to watch a Westchester League sandlot game, baseball has obsessed him to the point of mania. With doglike devotion, he has followed the White Sox, the Giants, the Cubs, and a half-dozen other U.S. Major League teams in training and on the road. Ruby owns and wears the uniforms of all the teams he fools with. He spends most of his time bench-warming...
...lion's two-year imprisonment and flight (TIME, Nov. 23). As a breath-taking narrative of captivity and escape and as a unique firsthand description of the miseries of life among Germany's French prisoners, They Shall Not Have Me is one of the half-dozen most remarkable books of World...
When he returned to the U.S. at 24, he was the finest of all U.S. cellists and one of the half-dozen best in the world. But Cellist Wallenstein stuck to orchestra playing, played for seven years with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony as first cellist for his intimate friend and patron, Arturo Toscanini. When Toscanini resigned from the Philharmonic in 1936, Wallenstein resigned...
...Truman war-watchdog committee exploded in a new report, this time on a half-dozen phases of U.S. aircraft production, with a special shelling reserved for Curtiss-Wright Corp., second largest U.S. war contractor (first: General Motors...