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...Negros Occidental province of the southern Philippines, children with flowers carried a small white coffin along a country road leading through sugar-cane fields. The casket contained the body of Juan Latorgo. His grieving mother, Estrellita Latorgo, 21, says that she took her son first to the local hospital and then to a witch doctor. Neither could arrest the symptoms of malnutrition that killed Juan, at the age of seven months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Powder Keg of the Pacific | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...concert. With Kostelanetz on the podium of Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall and Pons at 68 looking frightened and fragile, nostalgic fans found that time has left a bit of dust on Lily's middle voice but that the famous high tones are still silvery. After a soaring Estrellita, Lily got a standing ovation, then dodged her well-wishers and headed straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 12, 1972 | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

Married. Yousuf Karsh, 53, Armenian-born, Canadian-based portrait photographer; and Estrellita Maria Nachbar, 34, Chicago medical research assistant; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 7, 1962 | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

...conduct the Mexico Symphony Orchestra in a broadcast in memory of the torpedoing of the tanker Potrero del Llano, which led to Mexico's entry into the war. One of the numbers programmed was La Mort, whose composer is kindly, snowy-haired Manuel Ponce, a Mexican Indian whose Estrellita is one of the most popular songs of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: On Stokowski | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

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