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...true story of the most recent attempts to save the life of the world's most famed hemophiliac came to light last week when the onetime Crown Prince of Spain returned to Manhattan after a winter's painful stay in Havana. Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, Knight of the Golden Fleece, was born Prince of Asturias 29 years ago next month. He grew up to be a sufferer from hemophilia. His skin is thin, his muscles soft, and his blood does not clot. Consequently a slight cut or bruise may start...
With ineffable humility the Son of Heaven indicated that the five best poems by commoners were to be read first-much as Alfonso XIII used personally to wash the dirty feet of twelve poor Spaniards each year on Maundy Thursday. Each Japanese commoner's poem was, however, rendered by the ceremonial chorus only once, those by Japanese Princes and Princesses of the Blood twice, and the Empress' poem three times. The poem composed by His Imperial Majesty in person was loudly, deeply and sonorously intoned once, twice, thrice, four times and yet again, in keeping with the dignity...
...also as general manager," said Lawyer Thompson. "He is at work now completing the organization, gathering assistants together." Some 15 local radio stations in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin have already been signed up. Mainspring of the Insull chain is Ota Gygi, one-time court violinist to Spain's Alfonso XIII and promoter of Ed Wynn's defunct Amalgamated Broadcasting Co. According to Lawyer Thompson, President Insull "hasn't got a dollar in the company; he didn't have a dollar to put in." One sure sign of broadening popular interest in stockmarket speculation is booming activity...
Born- To the Infanta Beatriz Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugénia Christina Maria Teresa Bienvenida Ladislaa, 26, eldest daughter of onetime King Alfonso XIII of Spain; and Prince Alessandro Torlonio 24; a daughter, their first child; in Rome. Name: Sandra Vittoria Beatrice Maria. Born. To James Roosevelt, 28; and Betsey Gushing Roosevelt: their second daughter, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's sixth grandchild; in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ib. Name: Katharine ("Kate"). Died. Jack ("Machine Gun") McGurn, né Gebhardi, 38, reputed onetime Capone No. 1 triggerman; shot twice in the back of the head by unidentified gunmen; in a Chicago...
...phase of this question is discussed by John E. Dodge '38 in an article entitled "Autonomy of Art", in which he deplores the unfortunate tendency on the part of critics to boom all American art, regardless of its merit. A full page drawing by Alfonso Ossorio '38 symbolizes a medley of opinions...