Word: josefina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rancher Joe S. Chavez was above such superstitions and the poor Mexicans who believed in them. Joe was big, tough, and handsome. After he married beautiful Josefina Puebla back in 1929, she inherited a ranch near the Superstition Mountains. Joe raised white-faced cattle. Joe leased section after section of Government grazing land. Joe prospered. But ten years ago a dreadful thing happened to his wife. She began going blind, suffering from trancelike spells, and complaining that her head was swelling up like a balloon...
...cautious Yaqui Indian sidle up and tell Joe what had really happened: "She's had a curse put on her by a powerful witch." Joe snorted. But when the Yaqui recommended that he see a Puerto Rican bruja about a cure. Joe went. The witch knew all about Josefina's case, and offered to save one of her eyes for $100. Joe paid...
Adapted by Director Norman Foster and Josefina Niggli from her 1945 novel, A Mexican Village, the picture was entirely photographed in authentic settings. Although it tries to affect a rakishly romantic tilt, Sombrero is mostly...
Albert K. Hannum, an engineer of Willoughby, Ohio, recently wrote to me about Josefina ("Joey") Guerrero. He said that it's about time for a progress report on Joey...