Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Out of the Budget. President Estimé, gambling about a fourth of his government's revenues on the chance of winning tourist dollars, seemed satisfied with Schmiedigen's creation. The 1,500 workers, singing as they hammered, spoke of it affectionately as "ti exposition pa'nous" (our...
Chatillon has made customer-shocking a million-peso-a-year business. For half an hour before the opening of his annual fashion show last week, the Packards and Cadillacs of traditionally tardy Mexico City society matrons tied up traffic in front of his combined atelier and home on the Paseo...
Son of a British father and a French mother, Monsieur Henri was born Henry Hutchinson in Paris 42 years ago. He came to Mexico in 1942 and set up shop as Henri de Chatillon, hatmaker, in the Reforma mansion that had once housed Emperor Maximilian's mistress. His first...
One night last April, a Mountie agent called at the parish house and told the curate that he had come for some "H" (heroin). Taillefer's superior, the pastor, was ill at the time and the curate had the run of the rectory. He told his caller that he...
Illustrator George Petty pooh-poohed the vaunted French chic: "When the middle-class French girl dresses up, she undresses. Her costume is a display of sex . . . whereas the healthy outdoor life of the American girl gives her natural radiance, which is the true attraction of the opposite sex."