Word: marquisate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly before noon one day last week, Justice Robert H. Jackson made his final purchase in a Washington department store, got into his car and headed for the Supreme Court Building. On the way he suffered a heart attack. He drove to the nearby home of his secretary and, within...
Piero Piccioni, the son of Premier Mario Scelba's ex-Foreign Minister, was locked up in Rome's Queen of Heaven jail on charges of manslaughter. Ugo Montagna, the rich and influential bogus marquis, was clapped into a nearby cell. Rome's ex-Police Chief Saverio Polito...
The Montesi case would not die, as pretty Wilma Montesi herself had died, obscurely on an Ostia beach 13 miles southwest of Rome (TIME, Feb. 15). At first her death was dismissed as accidental drowning, then came hints of murder. Suddenly sparked by a criminal libel suit, a vast scandal...
As Finance Minister to France's King Henri IV (1589-1610), the shrewd but fair-minded Due de Sully is said to have piled up for his royal master a fortune of some 40 million gold livres. The duke also did well enough by himself to purchase a fine...
Died. Marquis Pierre de Chambrun, 89, great-great-grandson of the Marquis de La Fayette; of a heart ailment; in Marvejols, France. An honorary American citizen by virtue of his descent from La Fayette (and husband of Cincinnati-bred Margaret Rives Nichols), Old Statesman de Chambrun put in nearly half...