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Loving. He married Flor de Oro (Flower of Gold), the wildcat daughter of Dominican Dictator Trujillo, and stayed married to her for five years. The Dictator, apparently impressed by this feat, made him a diplomat. Once established on the Continent, Rubi found ways of maintaining himself in expensive luxury. He had setbacks. The Germans threw him into a detention camp during World War II. Back in Paris in 1944 he was wounded in a mysterious street shooting. But Rubi was undismayed. He married French Actress Danielle Darrieux (a collector's item), and capped this by marrying Doris ("Richest Girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL NOTES: So Tired | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: A Spell of Unemployment | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF MALAYA: Smiling Tiger | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

Last week, nevertheless, Suzy married another Brazilian, Antenor Mayrink Veiga, 47, owner of Rio's radio station Mayrink Veiga, proprietor of the Casa Mayrink Veiga (machines, munitions) on Rio's Rua Mayrink Veiga, and sometime husband of the much-married Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of the Dominican dictator. Said Suzy: "He's no playboy, but older-just what I need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Young Wives' Tale | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...week's end, Xochimilco's water level had risen to 15 inches. The boats were out again, with fresh flowers spelling out their names, Juanita and Maria, Esmeralda and Flor. Old Pacheco, poling a load of tourists along a canal, waved airily to his son Tomas, who was passing in the canoa Laura. "We're not finished yet, are we?" he shouted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Water for Tourists | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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