Word: marias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this gay crew was Edda's sister-in-law, lovely, slender Countess Maria Magistrati. Maria had a figure to dream of, even if her taste in brocades was atrocious. True, she had thrown herself away on the obscure Counsellor of the Italian Embassy in Berlin, but her cavaliers were many, her conquests for the union of Naziism and Fascism pleasantly won. Over-dieting finally killed...
Died. Princess Stephanie Clotilde Louise Hermine Marie Charlotte of Belgium, 81, elder daughter of the late King Leopold II, widow of Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf, who shot his mistress (Baroness Maria Vetsera), then himself, in the famed Mayerling scandal of 1889; in Hungary (according to the Brussels radio). The Princess married Hungarian Count Lonyay...
Soldiers also rioted. When Dr. Alberto Maria Candioti, former Argentine Ambassador to Mexico, reprimanded them, he was told that they were obeying "superior orders." Said a diplomat who had been in Berlin during the early days of Hitler: "Just like the brown shirts...
...tumbril but in a Black Maria, Henri Philippe Pétain, 89, hero of Verdun, Marshal of France and chief of the late Vichy Government, rode to one of history's great trials-his own, for high treason. With him rode the France of 1940 to be judged by the France...
Died. Winfield Richard Sheehan, 61, pioneer movie maker, husband of ex-Diva Maria Jeritza; from a relapse after an abdominal operation; in Hollywood. Co-organizer of the Fox studio in 1914 and longtime picture-producer (What Price Glory? Cavalcade}, he uncovered many a star (Janet Gaynor, Shirley Temple, Spencer Tracy). He returned to cinemaking last year to produce Captain Eddie...