Word: marias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles, Danish-born, barrel-shaped Singer Lauritz Melchior, who made his Metropolitan debut 21 years ago, finally became a U.S. citizen, with Danish wife Maria. "Now," burbled the 57-year-old heroic tenor to the press, "I will really sing...
...tight little valley high in the Andes, the 400-year-old capital city of Quito (pop. 174,000) was astir with a new kind of bustle. Its Conservative mayor, tall, thin Jacinto Jijén y Caamano, 57, was making things hum. He had talked President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra into borrowing $4,000,000 in Washington to build the city's first aqueduct since Inca times. Said Mayor Jijén (pronounced "he-hone"): "This summer, for the first time, Quito will have water...
Awarded to Marlene Dietrich (mother of 22-year-old Actress Maria Manton), to Lana Turner (mother of three-year-old Cheryl), and to Belle Taylor Tierney (mother of Actress Gene, 26, and Sister Pat): places on a list of "the most glamorous mothers in the U.S." The judges: 80 obliging magazine illustrators...
From Madrid, the correspondent of Maria Eva Duarte de Peron's newspaper, Democraticia, cabled an alluring preview. The reception for Argentina's First Lady, when she came to get the Order of Isabel La Catolica* from Dictator Francisco Franco, would be "the most brilliant ever organized for a foreign guest...
...famed white portable, a speech of welcome in Spanish-his pet language-to Uruguay's new Minister to the Holy See, Alfredo Carbonell Debali. But for the most part, Pius worked last week on a long, careful speech to be delivered at the beatification of Maria Goretti, constantly checking and consulting books and scriptures from the Vatican library to supply the many references and quotations...