Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years had the French had so intriguing and labyrinthine a scandal as L'Affaire Lacaze (TIME, Feb. 2). At stake was whether handsome and politically influential Jean Lacaze, administrator of the vast Zellidja lead and zinc mines in Morocco, his entrancing sister, Domenica, and her great and good friend, Dr. Maurice Lacour, were involved in an unsuccessful plot to murder Domenica's adopted...
Police were curious about the fact that several people closely connected with the Lacazes had died suddenly. Domenica's first husband, wealthy Art Collector Paul Guillaume, was first thought to have drowned, and then was said to have died of paratyphoid. Jean Walter, her multimillionaire second husband, met sudden death when he was run down by a passing Citroên after alighting from a car in which sat his wife and Dr. Lacour. Inevitably this curiosity turned to the puzzling business of a famous American in Paris, U.S. Millionairess Margaret Thompson Biddle, who spent a night...
Pain & Paralysis. This beglamoured life ended dramatically on June 8, 1956. With Norwegian Ambassador Rolf Andvord and her good friends Domenica Walter, Jean Lacaze and Dr. Maurice Lacour, Maggie attended a gala opera performance in honor of visiting King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece. Her close relationship with Domenica and Jean had business as well as social overtones: through her own Newmont Mining Corp., Maggie owned nearly half the stock in Domenica's and Jean's rich Zellidja mines. There were rumors that, dissatisfied with the long-term plans of the Zellidja management, she was planning...
...become a stepping stone in Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro's planned invasion of the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. "Haitian exiles are being trained in Havana," said Duvalier. Exhorting his people to fight back, he raised the war cry of famed Patriot Jean Jacques Dessalines (1758-1806): "Coupe tetesl Boulé cailles!" (Cut off heads! Burn houses...
Among those elected to the Committee were Jean L. Anderson '59, of Whitman Hall and Wethersfield, Conn.; Katherine C. Ashley '59, of Briggs Hall and Seattle, Wash.; Emily W. Churchman '59, of Bertram Hall and Lafayette Hill, Pa., and Juanita K. Cohen '59, of Whitman Hall and New York City...