Word: eulogio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall, weighs 120 Ibs. and has black hair, sweeping black lashes and a mouth compared by one inspired limeño to the ace of hearts. She also is heiress to a fortune of 500 million soles (more than $32 million at the free exchange rate). Her maternal grandfather, Eulogio Fernandini, had a finger in almost every financial pie in the country and was known to his contemporaries as an ardent collector-of gold coins. After his death in 1947, tax assessors laboriously counted their way through two large antique coffers full of gold pounds and two-sol quintos, reckoned...