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...backstroke--won by Steinhart (H), 2, Woods (H), 3, Cresswell (P). Time--1:38.3. 200-yd. breaststroke--won by Vielman (H), 2, Alba (P), 3, Wheeler (H). Time--2:38.2. 440-yd. freestyle--won by Tolf (H), 2, Kinney (H), 3, O'Donnell. Time--5:10.2. 400-yd. freestyle relay--won by Harvard: Stone, Cottes, Tobias, Hull. Time...
...Grab. Dannie Heineman, whose friends and associates include such bigwigs as Herbert Hoover, Spain's Duke of Alba and Britain's Viscount Swinton, prevailed upon Belgium and Canada to protest March's actions. Franco, who had praised March for his "audacious nationalism," brushed them...
...millionaires and marquises. They bought a $250,000 house in Paris, complete with kidskin chairs, zebra rugs and a room decorated in platinum leaf, but the house was often only a place from which mail was forwarded to the English countryside, Antibes, Venice, Florence, Siena, and the Duke of Alba's palaces in Seville and Madrid. In 1923, when Porter came into an inheritance from his grandfather, he began renting Venetian palaces...
While he wrestles with his problem, there comes a bid from Washington, to serve on a technical mission to "Alba," a fever-ridden province in a South American country. Harmon grabs at the chance. In Alba, he begins to find new resources within himself. He bucks the "business-as-usual" policies of the mission's chief, blimpish Colonel Burling; he finds an understanding friend in Ernestina Manriquez, neglected wife of a rich landowner. From her he regains the "sense of recklessness, the grandeur of being a man, being male." But it is from his new friend Vicente Hidalgo...
Born. To Maria del Rosario Cayetana, Duchess of Montoro, 22, only child of the 17th Duke, of Alba (Spain's top nobleman and ex-Ambassador to Britain) whose wedding last October cost $300,000' and Don Luis Martinez de Irujo y Artazoz 27, blueblooded onetime able seaman in Franco's navy: their first child, a son; in Madrid