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Three of the 32 stamps in the Goya issue (11½, 46¢, $1.15) are reproductions of that acid genius Francisco Goya's best known picture La Maja Desnuda ("The Nude Maia"), a portrait of the bold, bare, buxom Maria Teresa, Duchess of Alba. The picture caused trouble when Goya painted it.* Trouble continued last week...
Grand Voevod. Almost forgotten amid these transports was a clause in the law of annulment pointing out that Mihai has never been king, observing that he has been and is Crown Prince, and creating him with a spacious gesture Grand Voevod of Alba Julia...
...hundred and twenty-yard free style Won by Albert Schwartz (Northwestern) second, Austin Clapp (Stanford); third, Ray Ruddy (Columbia); fourth, Garnett Alba (Michigan). Time--2m. 16 3-5s. (new national collegiate record...
Solemn was Alba as he took his new ministerial oath at Madrid last week, but directly afterward he said with a grin to Dictator Berenguer: "I have never been a diplomatist, and, although my family has such qualifications, they are not necessarily hereditary, but I shall do my best to serve Spain...
...Alba's recipe: one and one-half lumps cane sugar in an empty champagne glass, plus quarter teaspoonful of Angostura bitters, plus brut (i. e. "natural" unsweetened) champagne...