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Married. Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr., 48, silver-spoon socialite turned tinsel journalist, roaming New York Post columnist ("Vagabonding with Vanderbilt"), son of high society's dowager queen; and Maria Feliza Pablos, 29, grandniece of Mexico's onetime Dictator-President Porfirio Diaz; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Reno...
Mexicans call the monument "La Gasolinera" because of its likeness to a giant filling station. It was built by Porfirio Diaz not as a monument but as the central portion of his legislative palace. But revolution caught up with Don Porfirio, the palace was never completed, and ultimately the framework was sheathed with stone, to stand as an ungainly testimony to Diaz's overthrow...
Died. General Plutarco Elias Calles, 68, Mexico's President from 1924 to 1928 and El Jefe (the boss) for many years before & after; after a gall-bladder operation; in Mexico City. The onetime schoolteacher and storekeeper gained prominence in the 1911 revolution against Porfirio Diaz, thereafter dominated Mexican politics until banished in 1936 by Lazaro Cárdenas, his former protege. Calles improved education and labor laws, inveighed loudly against one-man rule yet practiced it, continually flailed the Catholic Church, was labeled "hard but just" by U.S. Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow...
Divorced. By Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, 62, tall, tweedy British Ambassador to Russia and recent Yalta conferee: Lady Kerr (Maria Teresa Diaz Salas), 38, comely Chilean socialite, now a resident of Manhattan; after 16 years of childless marriage; in Edinburgh, Scotland. The grounds: desertion (since...
Hinting at one root of the trouble. Senator Vidal Diaz Muñoz last week shouted to the Mexican Senate: "Speculators must be given the death penalty...