Word: marquesa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Richard C. Pistell, 41, onetime merchant seaman who dropped anchor at Wall Street in 1948 with $50 in his pocket, now captains Goldfield Corp., one of the fastest growing and most aggressive conglomerates (TIME, May 9); and the Marquesa de Portago; both for the third time; in Manhattan...
...perfumed air, Muzak, and a cast of supporting players that includes one girl who does nothing but help customers with their zippers). They are whirlwind travelers who can comb out 250 New York debutantes one day, rinse an Italian princess the next, and pin a pony tail on a marquesa in Spain before nightfall (Alexandre's itinerary took him around the world twice just in the month of October). Each is accompanied by a vast retinue of apprentice craftsmen and enough apparatus (hair dryers, electric curlers, rollers, sprays, creams, nets, wigs, wiglets, switches, and six varieties of scissors...
...banal apartment tower, she minded very much and, identified by the sellers only as a "person of immense good will" she pledged $2,000,000 to buy the buildings for the city. Who was she? Well, she doesn't care for publicity, but she was the Marquesa de Cuevas, 67, widow of the ballet impresario and a granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, who left her $25 million when he died...
...Palace was over, and now came time to take the family photographs. Little María de Aránzazu Luisa la Santísima Trinidad y de Todos los Santos, born a fortnight ago, was trundled into the boudoir of her mother, Maria del Carmen Franco y Polo, Marquesa de Villaverde, 36, the only child of Spain's Francisco Franco. All was serene while the photographers snapped away. Then the Marquesa's next youngest child, María del Mar. handed her mother a tiny box. As the last bit of gift wrapping was torn away...
Born. To Maria del Carmen Franco y Polo, Marquesa de Villaverde, 36, raven-haired only child of Spain's Generalisimo Francisco Franco, and Dr. Cristobal Martinez Bordiu Ortega y Bascaran, tenth Marques de Villaverde, 40, heart and lung surgeon whose 17th century title puts him a notch below a grandee: their sixth child, fourth daughter...