Word: malaga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raconteur-pianist, whose bawdy songs in free verse derided and titillated cafe society in the '20s and '30s, once caused the entire Albuquerque Rotary Club to walk out on him; in Manhattan. Fiske made pretentious women his special target (Queen Anne, Miss Elaine of Boston, Gretchen Goudonofi, Malaga the Grape Girl), but he was also unkind to Marc Antony ("Cleopatra thought this was so swell / She had the Fig Newtons passed around, / Which only gave Marc Antony a case of hiccups / She misconstrued this for emotion...
...cultivated New Jersey importer, Eilshemius was born to wealth, studied art in Europe traveled through Spain (where he painted Malaga Beach), Africa and the South Seas. He began exhibiting early, seemed destined for glittering success. He had mastered a broad and airy impressionism, not so brightly lit as that of his French masters, but softly luminous. What queered his career was a strain of fantasy: he introduced into his atmospheric pictures incidents of a naive sort-lubricious, melodramatic (as in Jealousy), somewhat wooden...
...Moving Day. Spain's five Protestant denominations (Baptists, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Pentecostals and Plymouth Brethren) are subjected to constant harassment. In the past five months the police have closed five of their churches on technicalities-two in Barcelona and one each in Malaga, Seville and Madrid. Three years ago the police closed the only Protestant theological seminary in Spain; candidates for the ministry must now be trained by local pastors...
...Malaga, Spain...
...when Ralph Reed persuaded the Spanish government to join American Express in a travel promotion program that touched off Spain's tourist boom. Palma de Majorca, in the Balearic Islands, is still the top tourist attraction, but the coves of Spain's Costa Brava and Malaga's sandy beaches will pull thousands of American sun worshipers...