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Franco had ten-year-old Juan Carlos, Prince of the Asturias, to lunch. The pale, quick-witted prince, son of exiled Pretender Don Juan (now in Portugal), is being educated in Spain under Franco's protection, looking toward an eventual restoration of the monarchy. Franco called the princeling "Alteza...
Weil-Heeled Heirs. Jose Yves Liman-tour III, grandson of Diaz' nimble-witted Secretary of Treasury, conducts the Jalapa Symphony Orchestra (TIME, Oct. 4); his father, Guillermo Limantour, is Mexico City's top real-estate operator, and owns large chunks of Avenida Juarez. Rivaling Guillermo in real estate...
In Miss Tatlock, Brackett breaks three major movie taboos: a little fun is poked at insanity, the plot contains a suggestion of incest, and a pair of unregenerate frauds are treated with sympathy. By good humor and skillful gags he manages to avoid giving too much offense. His main device...
And the guts, as said before, are the trimmings. These include two characters obviously patterned after Billy Rose and his wife Eleanor Holm. Sam Levene and Audrey Christie do a fine job of making these two into tough, witty, shrewd people, the kind Hart loves to harrass. Virginia Fields, who...
In Beverly Hills, Calif., radio's quiz-witted Phil Baker got a $200 fine, a go-day sentence (suspended) and court orders to mount the water wagon for a year, after he was nabbed at the wheel of a weaving car.