Word: alvear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to a 1945 presidential decree, all Argentine restaurants, even such famed luxury resorts as the grill rooms at the Plaza and the Alvear Palace Hotels in Buenos Aires, are required to list and serve the menú econímico. This 32? meal typically consists of uninspired soup, a snarl of spaghetti, nondescript fish and a tired banana...
When Asbestoscion Tommy Manville, 58, decided that the time was ripe for his twelfth marriage (this time to Mrs. Lillian Bishop Alvear, 29-year-old divorcee and mother of two children), he found the process getting slightly more difficult. The city clerk in New Rochelle, N.Y. refused to sell him a license; but he was able to buy one in Greenwich, Conn., which requires a five-day wait. Then came bad news from Manhattan. Anita Frances Roddy-Eden Manville, his most recent wife, who bought a Mexican divorce last year, swallowed an overdose of sleeping pills when she heard...
...Maria Unzue de Alvear was one of the few women listed in Argentina's Who's Who. A plump, little old lady who lived out her declining years in piety and good works, she gave an estimated 1,000,000 pesos ($112,000) a year to charity. She could well afford it; her family, which had given Argentina one of its most distinguished Presidents (Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, 1922-28), owned a good million acres of rich grazing land...