Word: albaness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Count Nova de Tajo, 26, glossy but genuine Spanish count, was arrested as a Nazi spy by the FBI. Among plushy U.S. gullibles, he possessed several assets besides his liquid eyes. The Duke of Alba is his cousin, Columbus was his reputed ancestor. He is the husband of Powers Model Wilma Baard, barge captain's full-fashioned daughter who was launched in society in 1938 by such sponsors as Lucius Beebe and Cartoonist Peter Arno. According to the FBI, she never knew that the count was 1) unsuccessfully delving into U.S. war production, 2) unsuccessfully trying to feel...
...Britain rumor said that the Franco Government's promonarchist Ambassador, the Duke of Alba (TIME, July 5), was touting restoration of the Spanish Bourbons. Reported The Week: Spanish monarchists had decided not to seek to replace Caudillo Franco from within but to work from abroad through influential friends in England...
...Germans are bullheaded and overbearing. Not all Japanese are bucktoothed. Not all Italians pinch bottoms. But last week Adolf Hitler could well agree with the Duke of Alba, Philip of Spain and Napoleon before him that all Dutchmen are stubborn. The evidence...
With the centuries his reputation increased, but of his many paintings, fame touched particularly his sweet, overblown Madonnas: The Madonna of the Chair, the Alba Madonna, the Sistine Madonna. The world agreed with Lübke, 19th-Century German art historian, that the Sistine Madonna "is, and will continue to be, the apex of all religious art." Queen Victoria thought Raphael "delightful" and refined. His Sistine Madonna became almost as familiar a Victorian figure as that of the reigning monarch...
...three years Chemist David Climenko of Alba Pharmaceutical Co. has been checking Demerol's effect on animals. Last week in Boston, before the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology, he reported satisfactory results. At the same time Dr. Robert C. Batterman of New York University told of using Demerol on 800 human patients. It quickly relieved postoperative pain, cut down the agony of arthritis and other diseases. Neither Chemist Climenko's animals nor Dr. Batterman's men & women developed any craving for the drug...