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...story about Palacios, which, like several others, leaked out of jail last week, typified to Argentines the spirit of defiance and even gaiety with which many of Perón's recent political prisoners bore their lot. High-spirited Victoria Ocampo, sixtyish, wealthy editor of Buenos Aires' highbrow literary magazine Sur, reportedly kept her sister prisoners laughing by telling jokes, organized a drama group to put on French plays. But the hero of most of the stories was indomitable old Alfredo Palacios. When fellow prisoners speculated whether there had really been an organized anti-Perón plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Stories from Jail | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

...Entire-group" is diplomatic double-talk for attractive, 20-year-old Lidiya Leisina, U.S.S.R. citizen. Last year she married Alvaro Cruz, son of Chilean Ambassador Luiz Cruz Ocampo. Ten months ago, Ambassador Cruz told President Gonzalez Videla that he was resigning, but he stayed on, trying to get his daughter-in-law out of Russia. Holding to its standard position toward Soviet women married to foreigners (TIME, April 21), Russia refused to let her go. At week's end Russia was still saying no, Lidiya was still in Moscow, Hostage Zhukov still in Santiago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Going, Going . . . | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...Ocampo prose, gracefully garnished with French, English and Spanish quotations, is concerned with places and people the author has known: Hyde Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Potted Cactus | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

Sunday, Boston in the dimout, the Patagonian lakes, Virginia Woolf, Paul Valery. It has whimsy and charm, but it represents a hybrid culture which Victoria Ocampo has not shed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Potted Cactus | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...Victoria Ocampo and Nobel Prizewinner Gabriela Mistral were born on the same day, April 7, but the Chilean poetess is two years older...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Potted Cactus | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

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