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...elegant. U.S.-born widow of Spain's auto-racing Marquis Alfonso de Portago came close to meeting death on wheels, as did the marquis in Italy's exhausting Mille Miglia road race in 1957. Under far tamer circumstances, attractive Carol Portago, 35, was crossing Manhattan's bustling Fifth Avenue last week when a taxicab, brakes gone, rolled into the intersection, plowed into Carol and two lady companions. Catapulted into the air, the marquesa came down against the cab's windshield, was indecorously given a short free ride. At week's end, with minor leg injuries...
...life of rueful anticlimax. In a setting where devious femininity was an accepted tactic, Mademoiselle was a blunt, soldierly Amazon famed for her huge nose. Obviously destined for a European throne, she rejected princes and kings who proposed to her or were proposed for her-Charles II of England, Alfonso VI of Portugal, Philip IV of Spain. With an annual income of nearly $1,000,000, she was the richest princess in Europe; yet the man who raided her fortune the most shamelessly was her own weak-spined father, the Duke of Orleans...
Died. Lonnie Alfonso Coffin, M.D., 68, who practiced for 44 years in Farmington, Iowa, received a gold medal last autumn as the American Medical Association's General Practitioner of the Year (TIME, Dec. 15); of a heart attack; in Keokuk...
...Alfonso Castaldo, 68, Archbishop of Naples, is regarded by the people of his native city as almost a living saint. A poor boy who knew what it was to go hungry ("It does not only affect your stomach, but it may have detrimental effects on your soul"), Castaldo as a priest devoted himself to welfare activities and schools, is also known for his personal charities...
...General Practitioner of the Year, who rates a gold medal, the delegates chose Dr. Lonnie Alfonso Coffin, 68, of Farmington, Iowa, who has been practicing there for 44 years, ten of them as the town's only physician, and eight of them since he had a heart attack. "I practice," said he, "seven days a week and whenever I'm needed...