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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Married. Maria Elizabeth Sieber, 22, plumpish actress daughter of svelte Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich; and William Riva, 27, Manhattan artist; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 14, 1947 | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

Everything was spic & span at No. 2 Piazza dell' Esquilino in Rome last week. Officials of the Argentine Embassy had spent 200 million lire (more than $250,000 at black-market rates) to clean and refurbish the four-story, 40-room building in honor of their house guest, Maria Eva Duarte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Familiar Rhythm | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...story is less novel. Mario (Ricardo Montalban), son of a famed Mexican ex-matador (Fortunio Bonanova), has talent in the bull ring, but his heart is in his music. When all Mexico accuses him of cowardice, his twin sister Maria (Esther Williams) doubles for him and, in a slather of veronicas, saves his reputation. He returns the compliment by saving her life. After that he proceeds to the conservatory with father's blessing. Sister is happy with her young man (John Carroll), and everything ends in a fiesta. Blonde, blooming Esther Williams is about as Mexican as Harry Truman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Critic. In Santa Clara, Cuba, Maria Barbara Perez wearied of her common-law husband's bathtub vocalizing, beat him to death with an automobile spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...winding new road, ten hours from Guatemala City. The local Indians, descendants of the ancient Mayans whose bones rested below, make daily sacrifices of flowers and incense before the mounds, while praying to their curious pantheon: to rain and wind gods of their old faith, and to Dios and Maria of the Catholicism they have since embraced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Green Priest | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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