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...socialite widow of a wealthy Cuban sugar planter. Senator Walsh met his bride in New York two years ago, courted her mostly by mail. One of Mrs. Walsh's two stepdaughters is the wife of the Mayor of Havana. The other is the widow of President Clemente Vasquez Bello of the Cuban Senate (assassinated last autumn). After the ceremony the Walshes flew toward Washington for the Inaugural. Declared Senator Walsh: "I expect to take two months vacation to show my wife the beauties of Montana...
...Scotland he organized the "Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies." In 1698, "amidst the tears and prayers of relatives and friends and countrymen," he, his wife and child accompanied 1,200 colonists to Darien. They settled between Porto Bello and Cartagena, two strong Spanish ports, there intended to build a canal and establish a free trade route "whereby to Britain would be secured the key to the universe, enabling their possessors to give laws to both oceans and to become the arbiters of a commercial world." The Spanish soon drove the colony out. Paterson's family...
...find the reason for the death of young Juan Rubiera, reporters had to go back to last September when a carload of hired assassins shot Dr. Clemente Vasquez Bello in front of his home (TIME, Oct. 10). People get shot in Cuba nearly every day but Dr. Bello was something special. Not only was he Speaker of the Cuban Senate, but a very intimate friend of Dictator-President Gerardo Machado. Within an hour of Dr. Bello's murder members of the Porra or Machado strong-arm squad attempted to assassinate Dr. Ricardo Dolz, anti-Machado leader and Rector...
...deal now passed to the Porra who promptly raided the home of Dr. Cuervo Rubio and arrested Angel Alvarez Fernandez, a student, on suspicion in connection with the September murder of Dr. Bello. Student Alvarez also "attempted to escape," was shot through the head...
...aviator in France, Macedonia. Morocco, where he had time to paint a number of most effective landscapes. He was decorated with the Legion of Honor, but, a sincere Royalist, he scorns the boutonniere as a relic of the Corsican upstart Napoleon. Shortly after the War he married Delfina Edwards-Bello, beautiful daughter of a wealthy Argentine. Their town house in Paris was the former studio of the late great Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, built on the site of an ancient convent, which Artist Boutet de Monvel has redecorated in a style which Artist Ingres would have liked to afford. Artist...