Word: otero
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does each year at the Spring Festivals, a beauty queen last week took up her reign in Mexico City. Titian-haired Luz del Carmen ("Moy") Otero rode into the bullfight ring at the head of a 16-car cavalcade, presided at horse races, and went to a ball every night. Moy had a fine time and so did her father, suave General Ignacio Otero, commandant of the First Military Zone. Moy owed it all to Daddy...
...margin, thought the police, was close enough to try for an upset; they rushed election headquarters with a big batch of last-minute votes for Yolanda. But when they arrived, said the police, canny General Otero's troops had got there first, with arms instead of votes. His soldiers bluntly told the police that the polls were closed...
Though the policemen demanded a recount, General Otero was unmoved. He denied the whole incident and saw to it that his daughter was crowned. "Mexicans," he explained, "do not know how to lose." But General Otero knew how a winner should act. To appease his daughter's competitors-all princesses of the festivals-he invited them to a gala luncheon. As Moy and her princesses plunged into a week of parties, even the traffic police forgot about the squabble...
Discovered living in the French village of Matour was another old favorite: Spanish Dancer Caroline Otero, once the idol of a dozen capitals and a good many capitalists. Oftenest-told tale of "La Belle Otero" is that Belgium's Leopold II once put her up as stakes in a gambling game with England's Edward VII, lost, and paid. Now in her 70s, still tall and stately, Caroline lives quietly in a small house on an allowance from an old admirer. "I spent the weekend regularly with Edward VII," she reminisced happily last week. "The Kaiser Wilhelm...
Died. Miguel Antonio Otero, 84, governor of the territory of New Mexico from 1897 to 1906, buffalo-hunting companion of "Wild Bill" Hickok, Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, Kit Carson and General Custer; in Santa Fe, N.Mex...