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...asked Congress for permission to leave the country to visit the U.S.* got it on condition that he be gone only for the time "strictly necessary." (Señora Ricardo F. de Silva of Los Angeles, Calif, called to tell him that if he would visit L.A. he would be given a Mexican flag so big that 300 men would be needed to lift...
...Mexico City, Cinemactor Jorge Veéez and his wife (by civil law marriage), Margarita Richardi de Avila Camacho, missed the plane that was to whisk them (via Manhattan) to Rome for a Catholic Church wedding. Señora Vélez is the widow of Maximino Avila Camacho, fabulously wealthy brother of Mexico's wartime president. As the car with its police escort left for the airport, another car drew abreast, poured in a fusillade of 22 Tommy-gun slugs. Vélez and his wife were wounded; her sister-in-law was killed. Jailed for questioning, Luis...
...Paris, Señora Lucienne Benitez Rexach, wife of a Puerto Rican millionaire, drowned her sorrows in champagne. From her hotel suite outside Paris, thieves had stolen $435,000 of her jewels and pocket money. But the victim, who before her recent marriage was a café singer known to Montmartre as Môme Moineau (Kid Sparrow), considers the burglars outrageously inefficient: in the same suite they overlooked another cache of jewels (value...
Safe Deposit. In Barranquilla, Colombia, Señora Juan Bores complained to police that her husband gave her no money for food, added that she could never rifle his pocket because he kept a snake...
...losing camp, he has thus far persuaded the generals to let him decide the time for a restoration. Meanwhile, he enjoys the old Bourbon palaces, hunts and fishes in the old Bourbon parks. When his wife entertains at tea, a butler in white gloves serves Señora Franco first, then doffs the gloves to pour for the guests...