Word: marquesa
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Pictured beaming out from under their mantillas at a bullfight in a Madrid arena were two lovely exponents of greater Hispanola, Carmen, Marquesa de Villaverde, 27, toothsome daughter of Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco, and Maria de Los Angeles Trujillo, 15, whose father is the Dominican Republic's equally strong...
...swindles that Faustino had perpetrated were just such poems as all their dreams were made of. For 15 days last year, he had convinced them all-and many a harder head into the bargain-that a certain penniless foundling named Maria del Rosario was in reality a marquesa possessed of vast lands and riches. A local bank had cheerfully advanced money to Maria to clothe her new dignity. Maria had established herself and her foster parents in a new home to await delivery of her lands and castles. All Valencia reveled in her good fortune (TIME, Sept. 24) until...
...prosecutor. "This man made a fool out of a poor, honest working girl." The presiding judge agreed. Last week he sentenced Valentin to four years and three months in prison, plus an indemnity of 20,000 pesetas to be paid to Maria. But the 27-year-old ex-marquesa, who had taken time off from her job as a charwoman to testify, bore no grudge. Her work-reddened hands hidden in the folds of a rich, black silk dress, the one remnant of her marquesal wardrobe, she told the court: "Of course, he lied. But it could have been true...
...told leaders that nationalist unrest is just playing into the hands of the Russians. Results so far are meager, but if Franco's missionaries win Moslem converts, the troubled West may be grateful to Madrid. Star of the traveling troupe: Franco's only daughter, pretty, strong-willed Marquesa Carmencita de Villaverde, who received medals, teetered over Jerusalem's cobblestones in high-heeled shoes, and inaugurated the first direct Beirut-Madrid phone linkup by chatting for 20 minutes with...
Nelson Dyar, American, was "not at all distinguished in appearance. He did not look like an actor or a statesman or an artist, nor yet like a workman, a businessman or an athlete." Moreover, when the Marquesa de Valverde peered into his palm, she could see "no sign of anything ... an empty hand...