Word: glorias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation's top milliners pooled their talents to pick "the best chapeaued women of America." Among the winners: Mrs. Lauritz Melchior, Cinemactress Gloria Swanson, Mrs. Bennett Cerf, Actress Sarah Churchill, Comedienne Gracie Allen...
Last week, the Musni family and Father Coronel, friends no longer, were glaring at each other across a Manila courtroom while a judge weighed the legal answer to a delicate question that had disturbed the whole Philippine Republic: Was Father Coronel legally married to Gloria Musni...
...Father Coronel's own answer was an emphatic no. True, he told the court, he and Gloria had gone through a marriage ceremony before a justice of the peace in 1948, but there were at least two invalidating circumstances: i) the marriage was never consummated; 2) Alfredo Musni was holding a gun at his back at the time. After the ceremony, Father Coronel said, he returned to his parish, finally managed to slip away from the ever-watchful Musnis and escape 600 miles away to Zamboanga. Last fall, after church authorities had declared the marriage void, Father Coronel returned...
...arrived in my home on Lealtad Street and found my wife crying. I asked her what was wrong, but she refused to talk, so I hit her. Then she talked. She said Gloria was pregnant and crying in her room. I asked Gloria if this was true and who did it, but she kept quiet. So I hit her. Then my son Nestor arrived and I explained the matter to him. He also hit her. Then she talked. She said it was Father Coronel who did it ... The next morning I went [out] with my son . . . came back...
...Plain Blackmail." Alfredo denied that the marriage of Father Coronel and Gloria was a shotgun affair, claimed instead that the priest himself had suggested that he marry Gloria when he learned she was pregnant. Said Alfredo: "I even asked him how it was possible for a priest to marry, and he said there is no law against it, that in America they do it all the time...