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...MADRID. Old newsreels recall the tragedy of Spain's disastrous civil war (1936-39) in Producer-Director Frederic Rossif's masterly compilation, narrated most movingly by John Gielgud and Irene Worth...
...Cross orderly in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, I was present when a badly frightened soldier was admitted to an army hospital with an eight-inch unexploded mortar shell partially embedded in his shoulder. Surgeons and demolition experts deliberated on the advisability of deactivating the shell before attempting surgical removal. In the meantime, the victim decided to take matters into his own hands, forcibly wrenched the shell from his shoulder. He tried to hand it to one of the experts, but quite suddenly he was all alone in the room. Eventually the shell was deactivated, and the soldier made...
...MADRID. Such passionate non-partisans as John Gielgud and Irene Worth supply the commentary for vintage newsreels of Spain's tragic civil war of 1936-39, shaped by French Producer-Director Frederic Rossif into a powerful work...
This week Mayor Alfonso Cervantes, whose name is a reminder that the site of St. Louis once was ruled by Spain, plans to sign an agreement in Madrid for the purchase of the Spanish Pavilion from the New York World's Fair. For $3,300,000 in private funds, St. Louis would acquire the fair's most highly praised structure, with its three restaurants, 748-seat theater, and an art gallery. And given St. Louisans' thrust to make their city great, bonanzas are not likely to stop there...
Born. To King Simeon II, 28, deposed ruler of Bulgaria; and Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela, 29, Madrid socialite; their third child, third son; in Madrid. Title: Prince Kubrat of Panagyurishte...