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Gradually, word spread from cave to cave that school was fun. Soon Father Andres found that he could hardly keep up with his swelling classes. Every penny he saved went into the school fund. He begged land and donations from friends, even sold the jeweled decoration that King Alfonso XIII had given him ("What use have I for this fancy bauble?"). He began a special class for future teachers, started his two nephews toward the priesthood. Today, 30 years after his death, Ave Maria still flourishes, run by 75-year-old nephew Pedro...
...Infanta Maria Christina of Spain, daughter of the late King Alfonso and wife of Count Enrico Marone-Cinzano of the vermouth family, arrived from Italy for her first visit to Manhattan. Her reaction: "What you in New York pay a cook, Rome pays an ambassador...
...Bolivian tin mine into a fortune estimated at a cool $1 billion. His annual income used to surpass the government's. He formed a world cartel, bought heavily into Malayan tin, and lived abroad like an emperor, marrying his son Antenor to a niece of Spain's Alfonso XIII, his daughters to a French count and a Spanish grandee of such exalted lineage that he was entitled to keep his hat on while chatting with his king. Making himself Bolivian minister to France (to avoid the nuisance of paying French taxes), old Simón handsomely built...
Then one day King Alfonso XIII visited a beach resort near Santander, and Father Jesus appealed to him. The King visited the caves, admired the drawings and heard Father Carballo discourse on their antiquity. In 1924 the King financed a board of archaeological research, with Father Jesus as technical adviser...
...Firebird. In Cleveland, just after Mr. and Mrs. Alfonso Capretta had finished remodeling their home, a bird picked up a lighted cigarette from the street, flew to its nest in their roof, and set a $2,500 fire...