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Died. José Pardo y Barreda, 83, twice President of Peru (1904-08, 1915-19), son of Manuel Pardo, the nation's first civilian President; in Lima, Peru...
Alfonso Gonzalez Pardo, great-grandson of ex-President Manuel Pardo of Peru, spent a night in a Manhattan jail for lack, purely momentary, of $50,000 bail. Wife Ann, an ex-Powers model suing him for $4,000-a-month alimony, had him arrested just to keep him on the scene. He had already sent about $600,000 home to Peru, she charged, and she was afraid he was going there himself. Said he: "I have no immediate plans, so I will stay here a while...
Vincente Gonzalez Pardo, grandson of Peru's onetime president Manuel Pardo, and ex-Wife Ruth Piper Hollingsworth Foran Chatfield Pardo (four husbands) were sued in Manhattan by Hattie Carnegie Inc. for unpaid bills Wife Ruth had run up between the separation and divorce. A few items: a mink coat, $6,050; an ermine hat, $110; three nightgowns, $240; two beaded bags, $302.50. Grand total...
...lights were burning late in El Pardo, the somber palace on the outskirts of Madrid. As he waited in the cold, cavernous halls hung with tapestries of medieval Spain, Generalissimo Francisco Franco might well have wondered if the lights of his destiny were also burning late. It was going on midnight when a motorcycle courier raced into the high-walled palace grounds, roared past the Moorish sentinels, and delivered the text of the Tripartite declaration. "It is hoped," London, Washington and Paris had broadcast, "that leading patriotic and liberal-minded Spaniards may soon find means to bring about a peaceful...
Carmencita Franco, only daughter of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, officially discarded childhood on her 18th birthday, unveiled her Spanish-style beauty (see cut) at a debutante ball in Madrid's El Pardo palace...