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...annual London visit King Alfonso XIII of Spain ate his meal in his favorite Spanish restaurant in Cavendish Square, dined on an annual dish, "Salad of the Gardens of Spain." Concomitants: cold sliced chicken reposing on lemon-yellow hearts of lettuce, criss-crossed with ribbons of pimiento, topped by a mold of fruit salad-sliced oranges, large green Malaga grapes, thin strips of pineapple- all chilled and jelled in fruit juices. Gourmet Alfonso then finished the "Gardens" off with cubes of melon and succulent strawberries soaked in rare old sherry, enjoyed himself thoroughly...
Married. Prince Luis de Bourbon, 41, cousin of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, former fiance of Mrs. Mabelle Gilman Corey, onetime Broadway beauty who broke off with him after he demanded a dowry of $200,000, an annual income of $10,000, plus $2,000 yearly pocket money; and Princess Amedee de Broglie, 70, member of the oldest French noble families...
...Discoverer Martin Alfonso de Sousa mistook an arm of the Atlantic for a river, christened it seasonably the "River of January" (Rio de Janeiro...
...Fifteen guests including the sons of two Presidents (Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico and Lawyer Robert Alfonso Taft of Cincinnati) accompanied President Hoover to his Rapidan Camp over the weekend. There they found Mrs. Hoover, convalescing from the injury to her back two months ago. The President caught a 16-in. 2-lb. rainbow trout with a black gnat fly, the season's record for him. Rain and bad weather drove the President and his party back to Washington ahead of time...
...save Herbert Hoover and Theodore Roosevelt (TIME, June 11, 1928), have flown. European heads-of-state are less wary. Frequent flyers among them: King Albert and Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians; Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald; the Prince of Wales and his brother, Prince George; King Carol of Rumania, King Alfonso of Spain, Prime Minister Tardieu, Benito Mussolini...