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...Girl from Boston. Lachaise loved all women through his worship for one. He was 20, and an art student in Paris, when he met Isabel Dutaud Nagle. She was American, ten years older than he, married, and the mother of a small boy, but nothing could deter their romance. "She became the primary inspiration that awakened my vision," wrote Lachaise, and gave up a promising career in France to follow Isabel home to Boston...
Seven years later, and a dozen years after they first met, they married; Isabel would not get a divorce until her son was safely established at college. Lachaise won some public recognition at the 1913 Armory Show, but by the time of his first one-man exhibition, five years later, his sculptures were still tentative and shyly romantic, showing the influences-Rodin, art nouveau, and Roman sculpture-that he could not fully shake...
What finally melted Franco's heart was little eight-day-old Elena Maria Isabel Dominica de Silos, daughter of Don Juan's son, Juan Carlos, and Greek Princess Sophie, and, most important, Don Juan's first grandchild. With that in mind, Franco allowed the would-be king to return for 36 hours for the christening, then dropped in on the affair and had a rare 20-minute chat with the exile. What did they talk about? Well, Franco has five grandchildren himself...
...living is easy these days for Argentina's ex-Dictator Juan Perón, 68. A few political cronies slip into Madrid for a little political plotting, but mostly he just walks his poodle and sits around with his third wife, Isabel. The Argentines seemed content to have him where he is, and Spain's Strongman Francisco Franco has no objection to him. So it surprised everybody when Argentina filed for his extradition on technical charges of "rape or ravishment" for seducing a minor under 16. The girl in question is one he left behind: Nelly Rivas...
...DURIE (Kerr) MALCOM (Isabel O. Cooper, 11,304). We have no birth date. She was born Kerr, but took the name of her stepfather. She first married Firmin Desloge, IV. They were divorced. Durie then married F. John Bersbach. They were divorced, and she married, third, John F. Kennedy, son of Joseph P. Kennedy, one time Ambassador to England. There were no children of the second or third marriages...