Word: limantour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Weil-Heeled Heirs. Jose Yves Liman-tour III, grandson of Diaz' nimble-witted Secretary of Treasury, conducts the Jalapa Symphony Orchestra (TIME, Oct. 4); his father, Guillermo Limantour, is Mexico City's top real-estate operator, and owns large chunks of Avenida Juarez. Rivaling Guillermo in real estate is Pedro Corcuera, the sugar king of Jalisco, who saw the Revolution coming, cannily swapped his country estates for city holdings...
Mexico has two top conductors. They do not like each other much. Conductor Carlos Chávez of the National Symphony Orchestra has referred (in print) to José Yves Limantour as a "calumniator, howler, fool, evil person . . . and despicable." Limantour of the Jalapa Symphony Orchestra is equally outspoken about...
Would Mexico City get no "little" opera? Even Chávez' foes were horrified. Conductor Limantour phoned Chávez. "Maestro," he said, "I won't take back one thing I've said about you. But this is a national emergency. I give you my orchestra." Snapped Don Carlos: "You remain everything I've ever said you are. But I accept...
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