Word: pati
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Antenor Patiño married, the son of Bolivia's tin tycoon became the husband of one of the best-dressed women in Europe: the stately Cristina, daughter of the Duke and Duchess de Durcal. He also became the nephew-in-law of Spain's late King Alfonso XIII...
Moving Day. While the younger Patiño was in trouble for his peripatetic marital habits, the older Patiño picked up his traveling kit for reasons, said rumor, connected with the hue & cry over the untaxed profits of nonresident aliens in the U.S. Father Simon Ituri Patiño forsook his modest suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for the rigors of the low-taxed Argentine pampas. Stopping over in New Orleans, Patiño jammed himself into a ten-room suite in the Roosevelt Hotel. In a grey suit, wearing a grey fedora and grey...
...Patiňo, Bolivia's eightyish, enormously wealthy "Tin King," was sued in Manhattan for $500,000 by his godchild, French-born Suzanne Auclert Roth, 24. Her charge: Patiňo, worth an estimated $500 million, had promised her $1,000 a month for the rest of her life as "a social companion . . . always to be at his beck and call." But, she complained, he stopped beckoning-and the payments...
...story was that he had been kidnapped by a group of Army officers pledged to remove all active opponents of Bolivia's new regime. One of the regime's professed aims is to whittle down the power of the three mining magnates (Simón I. Patiño, Carlos Victor Aramayo, Hochschild) who have long dominated Bolivian politics...
...Patiño was last reported to be riding out the Bolivian blow in Montreal. Hochschild was rumored to be about to fly to Chile. His promise to leave Bolivia may have been the condition of his release. Only Aramayo would be left in Bolivia. Last week Señora Aramayo, her lips shut tight, arrived by plane in Buenos Aires...