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...Spain. It is also the opening date of one of the most torrid, non-stop adventure stories since Anthony Adverse. Captain from Castile begins with Pedro going to confession (he had slept through the Bishop's sermon, and kissed Catana Pérez). The book ends, 633 pages later, with Pedro's bride being prepared by her mother-in-law for the nuptial bed ("And breasts so haughty! . . . Such a figure, too; skin like marble. ... I don't wonder he's mad about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Stop Adventure | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

Love and the Inquisition. Pedro was redhaired, blue-eyed, broad-shouldered, hot-tempered, chivalrous, brave, a good swordsman, a bad liar, and a miser when it came to hanging on to his illusions. When Pedro came upon two ruffians in the forest attacking Catana Pérez (clad only in her shoes, stocking and a torn shift), he cut one with his whip and rode the other down with his horse, though Catana was only a tavern keeper's daughter. And without quite knowing what he was doing, he delivered himself and his family into the power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Stop Adventure | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

Divorced. Charles Spencer Chaplin, 53; by Paulette Goddard, 31; in Juárez, Mexico; after six years of marriage, more than six years of public speculation on whether they were or were not married. She was his third wife, he her second husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 15, 1942 | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

Gilbert Roland also became a U.S. citizen. Husband of Constance Bennett, the cinemactor was born Luis Antonio Damaso De Alonso in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Bejeweled Hyena | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

Venezuela's Foreign Minister Caracciolo Parra-Pérez used only one gesture as he rose to speak. He shook a furious finger under the pained nose of Ruiz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Growth of an Ideal | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

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