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Died. George de Cuevas, 75, Chilean-born, part-Danish, Spanish-titled Marquis de Piedrablanca de Guana, who married John D. Rockefeller's granddaughter in 1927, became international society's favorite ballet impresario and one of its freest-spending party givers, renounced his title, but not his way of life, when he became a U.S. citizen in 1940; of cancer; at his villa, Les Délices, in Cannes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 3, 1961 | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

...princes, 20 dukes, 95 counts, 35 marquesses and one sad and shopworn King (Peter of Yugoslavia), were all supposed to dress in the same (circa 1750) style, but many seemed as vague about their century as they did about their host, Ballet Impresario George de Cuevas, Marquis de Piedrablanca de Guana, who was spending a cool $75,000 to entertain them. Elsa Maxwell, who came only a couple of centuries too early in a red wig as Don Quixote's donkey-riding Sancho Panza, called him "that wonderful Italian who is doing so much for Biarritz . . . and Biarritz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Make-Work Project | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

...Carlo), Cincinnati's yeast king, Julius Fleischmann (Universal Art, Inc.), Manhattan's rug widow, Lucia Chase (Ballet Theatre), Boston's department-store prince, Lincoln Kirstein (American Ballet). Last week another prospective loser cheerfully bet his chips: Chilean-born George de Cuevas, onetime Marqués de Piedrablanca de Guana, who married the late John D. Rockefeller's granddaughter, Margaret Strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballet de Rockefeller | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

Chilean-born (but Spanish by title) Marquis George de Piedrablanca de Guana de Cuevas, husband of Margaret Strong, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller Sr., applied for U. S. citizenship papers in Toms River, N. J. Told he would have to renounce his title, he snorted: "Mister is good enough for me." In Manhattan, reporters discovered Arne Quisling, brother of Major Vidkun Quisling, leader of Norway's Nazi party and Hitler puppet. Said Brother Arne, who has been 15 years in the U. S.: "For me, I like it here. . . ." In Manhattan, Trapeze Artist Atrtrys Iwanows (of the "Daring Iwanows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 22, 1940 | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

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