Word: marquesa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italy's exhausting Mille Miglia road race in 1957. Under far tamer circumstances, attractive Carol Portago, 35, was crossing Manhattan's bustling Fifth Avenue last week when a taxicab, brakes gone, rolled into the intersection, plowed into Carol and two lady companions. Catapulted into the air, the marquesa came down against the cab's windshield, was indecorously given a short free ride. At week's end, with minor leg injuries, she had left a Manhattan hospital, counted herself "lucky to be alive...
...Marquesa Iris Origo will begin her lecture series on "Aspects of Social Life in Tuscany in the Last Two Centuries of the Middle Ages," today at 4 p.m. in the Forum Room of Lamont Library. Entitled, "Introduction: The Problem of Authority," it is the first in her series of nine John Milton Potter Memorial Lectures given under the auspices of the Department of History. All are open to the public...
Saludos for the Marquesa...
...Goya [Portrait of La Marquesa de Santa Cruz) looks more magnificent than ever in its proper place in the "softly lighted Spanish Gallery," and, of course, we are all very proud to have her. It was wonderful to be able to give her the kind of debut that you made for her [Los Angeles' Goya-April 14]. The article is excellent, and evidently is having an electrifying effect on friends and colleagues. The Marquesa even got a telegram of saludos and welcome from her three blacksmith countrymen in the Frick's Forge...
RICHARD F. BROWN Chief Curator of Art Los Angeles County Museum Los Angeles ¶For the three Spanish blacksmiths who greeted the Marquesa...