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Rewald had access to a vast amount of Seuratiana and to the painter's lifelong friend, the aged and acute French art critic, Félix Fénéon, from whom he has not heard since the fall of France. The result is an unexpectedly intimate portrait of an unusually reserved man, and a lucid exposition of his "scientific" methods of painting...
Last week, from Guayaquil jail, Captain Félix Guerrero announced his engagement to Señorita Julia Esther Briones. Said Julia: "Our engagement ring is of steel, instead of gold, as a symbol of the durability of our love...
...afternoon in June 1939, slim young Julia Esther Briones walked into a swank Guayaquil barbershop, pumped five bullets into her rich, reclining, about-to-be-shaved lover, Ramón Hidalgo R. To jail went Julia with a nine-year sentence. In November 1940, Army Captain Félix Guerrero Zarate blasted three bullets into the beautiful young body of his just-divorced wife, María Magdalena Mejía. To jail went Félix with an eight-year sentence...
Little José Félix Estigarribia was bom of a family that had been rich and powerful in Asuncion for generations. As a boy he wanted to be an agricultural expert, but finally decided on the Army. So brilliant was his work at the Asuncion Military Academy that he won a scholarship in the Chilean Army, later went to Europe where he boned up on French tactics at the Ecole Supérieure de Guerre. Soon after his return to Paraguay, war broke out with Bolivia. For three years he kept winning promotions in the Chaco jungles, rose...
...last week, at the peak of his career, handsome, laconic, 52-year-old José Félix Estigarribia, soldier, diplomat, statesman, boarded a plane with his wife in Asuncion for a holiday at his country home on Lake Ypacaray. Somewhere between Altos and San Bernardino, 65 miles east of the capital, the pilot ran into fog and crashed...