Word: estoril
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Patrons of the Estoril Casino near Lisbon, Portugal, were left stranded after SIR ELTON JOHN disappeared just half an hour before a scheduled concert last week. "As far as I know, he said there was too much smoke," said a casino spokeswoman. "Then he said he was going out for some air, and we never saw him again." John apparently hopped in a limo, boarded his private jet and took off, leaving an audience that had paid more than $200 a ticket more than a bit peeved. "We have tried to get hold of him and his agent to give...
DIED. IOANNA, 92, Bulgarian queen; in Estoril, Portugal. Her marriage to King Boris III was blessed by Mussolini, and her husband was rumored to have been poisoned by Hitler. She helped many Jews escape the Nazis, and was exiled in 1946 when communists dissolved the monarchy...
Pickens has never lost his love of gambling. During the 1982 battle for Cities Service, he took time out to put $100 on a horse named Estoril, a three-year-old, 9-to-1 shot that he had been told was a sure thing in that year's Belmont Stakes. Estoril finished seventh in a field of eleven. Pickens had better luck last January, when he won $5,000 on the Super Bowl...
Died. Elena ("Magda") Lupescu, 81, longtime mistress and later wife of Rumania's ex-King Carol; in Estoril, Portugal. Daughter of a Jewish pharmacist, Lupescu, a divorcee, met the already married Prince Carol in 1924 and became his highly publicized mistress. When Carol's father ordered her out of the country, Carol left too, renouncing the throne. He came back as King in 1930, and Magda soon joined him, reviled as the "Jewish Pompadour" in the increasingly anti-Semitic climate. Under pressure from the Nazis, the couple fled Rumania in 1940, moving first to Mexico and then...
Since 1969, when Franco bypassed Don Juan by appointing Juan Carlos his official successor, the relationship between father and son has remained cordial but distant. The Prince and his family routinely visit Don Juan in Estoril, Portugal; reportedly, dynastic matters are tactfully avoided. Last June, however, Don Juan reasserted his right to the Spanish throne in a speech to several hundred supporters who had gathered at Estoril to celebrate his 62nd birthday. "I am not the head of any plot. I am not the rival of anyone," said Don Juan. But, he added, "I am the trustee of the centuries...