Word: flor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rubi" launched his career back in 1933 with a brief marriage to the spectacular Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of Dominican Dictator Rafael ("El Benefactor") Trujillo. Despite their divorce he was named chargé d'affaires in Paris in 1939, and went on to marry, successively, Actress Danielle Darrieux, sometimes called "the most beautiful woman in the world," and Doris Duke Cromwell, "the richest woman in the world." His job also led him to seeming affluence far beyond his official salary of $600 a month. Last week it came to a halt: Rubi got fired...
Speeding along the road toward Flor ence one day, he met a truck coming from the front with a looted baby grand piano. Seeing the general's stars, the truck driver pulled aside to let him pass-and hit a land mine in the ditch. Part of the piano came hurtling down on Templer's back, seriously injuring his spine. When he recovered, the war was almost over. ("Only general ever wounded by a piano," he says savagely.) Appointed first military governor of the British zone in Germany, he announced that he intended to be "firm...