Word: portee
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When Maria Barrientos died in 1946, her wealthy porteño friends paid for Maria Helena's lessons with Luis Ricci, who had once been at La Scala.
Duel. In La Porte, Ind., Joseph E. Machinski, 27, and Anthony S. Magglio, 25, who had terrorized innocent café patrons, were arrested and fined $1 apiece (plus costs) for blazing away at each other with their cap pistols.
Legs Visible. On the broad boulevards of the Argentine capital last week, many a piropo was whispered, for spring, although a bit late, had finally come. The dry weather had ill portents for the grain crop, but if Porteños were worried, they did not show it. The city...
At week's end porteños looked toward the sprawling Army headquarters at Campo de Mayo outside the city, where many violent political changes in Argentina have begun & ended, told each other: "There's a smell of gunpowder at the Campo."
"I Don't Care." Eva herself was an old story by now, but this latest romp had given conversation a new spice. For weeks, shopgirls riding the crowded subway of Buenos Aires had aired their views. "I don't care what she was," said one. "I just hope...