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...Khan proudly announced that his daughter-in-law of four months, the Princess Margarita (more familiarly known to millions as Rita Hayworth) would have a baby "some time between the first of November and January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hands Across the Sea | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...funeral of Rita Guay in Quebec three weeks ago, no one mourned more demonstratively than her husband Albert. Rita had died in the Quebec Airways plane crash on Sept. 9 which killed 23 people, including three top executives of the Kennecott Copper Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Flight to Baie Comeau | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

After the crash, Albert Guay, a jeweler and onetime munitions worker, had urged investigators to "get to the bottom of this." He bought a great cross of flowers to be placed on Rita's coffin. To a priest he said: "If God wanted it, I accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Flight to Baie Comeau | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...Series of Quarrels. Guay told police nothing. A slight, boyish-looking man with wavy hair, he had met Rita Morel, in a Quebec arsenal during the war. Their marriage became a long series of quarrels. Last spring Guay began going with a pretty young nightclub waitress named Marie-Ange Robitaille. Rita and her five-year-old daughter moved to her mother's home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Flight to Baie Comeau | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Last month, Rita came back. When her husband asked her if she would like to fly to Baie Comeau to pick up a box of jewelry she trustingly agreed. Albert bought her ticket, took her to the airport, where he paid 50? for a $10,000 air-travel insurance policy, naming himself as beneficiary. Meanwhile, according to the Mounties, Mrs. Pitre, who admitted she had bought two sticks of dynamite for Guay, arrived with the package...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Flight to Baie Comeau | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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