Word: luisa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...already knows, TIME'S weekly contract with its readers does not end once the magazine goes to press. Every one of the 1,000 or more letters that arrive in the mail each week receives a reply from TIME'S Letters Department, which is headed by Maria Luisa Cisneros and staffed by 13 assistants. The letters department also performs a less well-known task: answering the 150 or so letters a week from people requesting information-some additional bit of elaboration or an answer to a question. That is the demanding job for Marian Powers, Carla Lyddan...
...most satisfying parts of our work," says Maria Luisa, "is simply putting our readers in touch with other people-so they can exchange ideas and even help solve a problem." She remembers a Hungarian agronomist who had read in TIME about a California farmer whose artichoke crop was being ruined by mice. We gave him the farmer's address, and perhaps, after all, he did have a better mousetrap...
...gloomy!" she cried to friends gathered at the small cafe in Madrid. "When I get out, we will go to the country and roast a lamb." With that, Luisa Isabel Alvarez de Toledo Maura, 32, Duchess of Medina Sidonia, crossed the street to a courthouse to begin serving a one-year prison sentence. The duchess, whose title* is one of the most venerated in her country, was convicted of illegal protest when she led the villagers of Palomares on a protest trip to Madrid on the first anniversary of the crash of a U.S. bomber bearing a load...
...great-great-grandson of Maryland Governor Robert Bowie, he was raised in Washington, D.C. As a boy he worked inside the Scoreboard at Griffith Stadium, then the home of the Senators, for $1 a day. He played no sports in high school or at Princeton, but his wife Luisa describes him as a "real baseball buff. He can tell you who played the outfield for the St. Louis Browns in 1920, and things like that...
...steady rate. Hard put to keep up with the unending flow of correspondence, one of TIME'S letter writers nevertheless found time to devise a new title for her boss. After reading a World story on a recent German drive to shorten titles, she decided that Maria Luisa Cisneros rated just the opposite treatment and coined the name zuständ-igee Leserbriefeflutabteilungsoberleiterin. In other words: Chief supervisor of the department for answering the flood of letters to the editor...