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...Silvie Portray, for leadership in setting up treatment centers for the mentally retarded in Belgium, and Mrs. Eloisa García Etchegoyhen de Lorenzo, for doing the same in Uruguay (to each, a personal $12,500 plus $25,000 to carry on her work...
BRIDE OF THE CONQUEROR, by Hartzell Spence (336 pp.; Random House;$3.95). When rich, beautiful Doña Eloisa Marta Maria del Cristofora Leovigilda Canillejas arrives in the New World, every Conquistador bachelor in Peru is waiting and many a married gallant is ready to murder his wife to possess her. Pizarro, the villainous governor, gazes down her bodice as she curtsies to him and his kisses are "like hot irons." But Dona Eloisa side steps. In the end, Pizarro mounts the scaffold and Dona Eloisa gets the man she really loves...
...title of Miss Italy last night after her blue-blooded rival failed to show. Countess Blanca Maria Lovatelli, who won the title "Miss Rome" in an evening dress. refusedtocome here and display her charms in a bathing suit for the national prize. The award went to 19-year-old Eloisa Cianni of Florence...
Past Glories. Among the delegates at the congress were a few grey heads, schoolteachers and oldtime Fascist functionaries, but most were youngsters. In the red and gilt boxes sat such patrons as Marchesa Eloisa Marignoli, one of the party's chief backers, who languidly fanned her stiff, white-powdered face...
...more of Nizami, who celebrated the exploits of Alexander in a long epic called "Sekander-Kamed," and who, besides writing "Khosau and Shirin," wrote a most exquisite and touching love-episode, "Larli and Magnun," which takes about the same place in Persian literature as do "Abelard and Eloisa," "Petrarch and Laura," in the literature of France and Italy? "Larli and Magnun" has been translated into English by Mr. James Atkinson, who has also translated Firdansi's "Shah-Nameh," the history of the ancient kings of Persia. Or why did Mr. Emerson not speak of the "Adventures and Improvisations of Kourroglou...