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...principle to a loan of $5,000,000 to the Bolivian government tin corporation. In return, Paz promised to let through a law that would permit Patiño to divorce his first wife, Princess Maria Cristina de Borbón (a niece of Spain's last monarch, Alfonso XIII), and clear up any bigamous misgivings over the status of Patiño's second wife, Beatriz María Julia de Rivera Degeon...
...ALFONSO OSSORIO East Hampton...
...schools. And he held tightly to such ancient ecclesiastical privileges of the Spanish state as its right to nominate bishops. Franco, the little (5 ft. 4 in.) son of a provincial naval paymaster, even insisted on his right to march in church processions under a canopy, an honor Alfonso XIII regally disdained. And in 1954, the Archbishop of Toledo invested Franco with the collar of the Supreme Order of Christ (see cut), the Vatican's highest decoration...
...father, Gonzalo, who died in 1957, was the fourth Marqués de Casa Riera, and her mother claims descent from the royal houses of the extinct Spanish kingdoms of Aragon and Navarre. Last January Fabiola went to Switzerland to visit Queen Victoria Eugenia, widow of Spain's Alfonso XIII. While there, she met for the first time lanky (6 ft.), retiring Baudouin, 30, King of the Belgians. There were other meetings during the summer, but Fabiola continued to live quietly in her Madrid apartment, and continued her normal pursuits: churchgoing, charitable works, visits to her mother...
Mush Note. In Springfield, 111., after handing the police chief a bunch of forget-me-nots and noting that he tends to get sentimental when he has had too much to drink, Alfonso Senor admitted that it was his fourth sentimental occasion with in a week, got six months at the Vandalia Penal Farm...