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...Federal District Penitentiary one morning last week, 250 of the country's toughest thugs and cutthroats gawked like sentimental sidewalk watchers at the ceremony in their prison courtyard. Pretty Maria de Jesus Torres Martinez, 28, had come there to be married to a frog-faced murderer named Jose Ortiz Munoz, called El Sapo (The Bullfrog) by his fellow inmates. Demure in a green frock and red shoes, Maria de Jesus mooned over El Sapo, natty in a clean striped uniform, as he listened with rapt attention to the district judge...
While he was running Costa Rica in 1948-49 as head of a revolutionary junta, Jose ("Don Pepe") Figueres had his hands full with the aftermath of civil war, but he still found time to start turning his country into the moderately socialistic state he wanted. Figueres nationalized the banks, slapped a 10% tax on capital, raised wages by government decree. Complained one wealthy cattleman: "God made the world in six days, but look at what Figueres is trying to do in one night...
...Married. Jose Ferrer, 41, actor-producer-director of stage and screen (Cyrano de Bergerac, Moulin Rouge, The Shrike); and Songstress Rosemary Clooney, 25 (Come On-a My House); he for the third time, she for the first; in Durant, Okla., six days after Ferrer's previous wife, Broadway Actress Phyllis Hill* 32 (The Fifth Season), divorced him in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
...President will also be asked to find a way to boost the sagging Divinity School fund drive, which has advanced only one-sixth of the way toward its three million dollar quota. The Design School, with a newly appointed Dean Jose Sert, is also undergoing a shakeup...
Moulin Rouge. John Huston's richly Technicolored film about the life & loves of French Painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; with Jose Ferrer (TIME...