Word: elisa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Magda shared Carol's first five-year exile (1925 to 1930). She shared his power when he returned to Rumania in 1930 and was crowned. She moved into a villa on Bucharest's Alea Elisa Filipescu, where she raised white turkeys. She was violently hated in the country (manifestoes attacked "this red-haired witch who exercises such an occult influence over our King"). When Edward VIII abdicated for Wally Simpson's sake, Carol thought it prudent to suppress the news in Rumania for a while-lest his subjects get ideas. But he refused to give Magda...
Cinderella. Eva may have remembered in later years how he helped the family move to the larger town of Junin, where he got the eldest girl, Elisa, a job in the postoffice. With Elisa's pay, Doña Juana managed to make ends meet. In time she established herself as a respectable boardinghouse keeper, and one by one she set about marrying off her daughters to the star boarders. The first two were soon settled, but thin, dark, energetic little Eva had other ideas. Movie magazines were full of Cinderella success stories, and there was a girl down...
...send challenges to duel to a Radical Party colleague. Eva's enemies have a way of disappearing from the Government. Her family and friends are equally apt to hang on through thick & thin. Eva's brother is now Perón's personal secretary; her eldest sister Elisa is virtually the political boss of Junín. The husbands of Eva's two other sisters each hold lucrative political appointments...
Divorced. By General Fulgencio Batista, 44, ex-President of Cuba: Elisa del Pilar Godinez y Gomez de Batista, 40; after nine years of marriage, three children; in Mexico City. He charged that she "materially abandoned" him (by staying in Cuba while he wandered around North and South America...
...TIME'S apologies to Elisa Cansino, Rita Hayworth's aunt, who is not only alive but runs a dancing school in San Francisco...