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Mariquita is a daughter of the late great Spanish poet and novelist, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, who died five years ago at the age of 67, a stoical man who once smoked a cigaret while his right arm was amputated. Separated years ago from Mariquita's mother, Actress Josefina Blanco, he brought up two of their children -Mariquita and her brother Jaime - and instilled in them his own libertarian ideas...
...Buenos Aires sanatorium last week things began to look up for darkly pretty, tuberculous, 22-year-old María Beatriz ("Mariquita") del Valle-Inclán. Many newspaper-reading Argentines were happy for her. It seemed at last that she might be saved both from tuberculosis and from the vengeance of Spain's Francisco Franco -which extends even to sick young girls...
After the war Franco suppressed the books of Ramon del Valle-Inclán. But almost simultaneously an edition of his works was brought out by an Argentine publisher, sold heavily throughout South America. Royalties were sent to the author's widow and children. Tuberculous Mariquita used hers to enter a sanatorium near Molinari in the Argentine uplands...
Like the Spanish edition (Selecciones del Reader's Digest), the Portuguese Selacçàaos will lose money to start with. Two further ideas will increase Reader's Digest's Latin American budget: 1) a talent-scouting trip, now afield, in search of articles from Latin America (not to exceed 40% of magazine's content); 2) sponsoring free U.S. tours for Latin American writers...
...Central Park, the riding academy sent out a searching party of cops. It turned out Miss Golden and the horse had been visiting bars between Park Avenue and Times Square. When the cops found her she was trying to teach the horse the tango. ∙ ∙ A hotel in Del Monte, Calif, got an order from Surrealist Salvador Dali for party decorations. The order: 2,000 pine trees, 5,000 gunny sacks, 4,000 pounds of newspapers, four truckloads of pumpkins and melons, one wrecked automobile, one baby giraffe, three goats...