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...show was sponsored by Mexico's culture-conscious President Manuel Avila Camacho, who last year decreed an annual national prize for arts and sciences. (1945's prize went to an author, rotund little Dr. Alfonso Reyes, for his Criticism in the Athenian Age.) This year's 20,000 pesos ($4,140) will be awarded to an artist, plus 5,000 pesos each for the best example of painting, engraving, sculpture and architecture on exhibition...
...Lisbon Pretender Don Juan, son of Alfonso XIII, still awaited a summons to Madrid. He was in touch with the Caudillo's brother Nicolás, Spain's ambassador to Portugal. But the Caudillo had blown hot & cold on Don Juan. Falangists gibed at his British naval training, called him "the little British sailor in the service of Communism...
...ELERY ALFONSO...
Colombia's new-dealing President Alfonso LÓpez is respected throughout South America as a statesman of vision and intelligence. But the exuberance of Colombian politics sometimes unnerves him. At such times he offers the Senate his resignation. LÓpez has offered to resign because of 1) a political scandal following the murder of "Mamatoco" (an obscure Negro boxer), 2) a division in the ranks of his political supporters, 3) his wife's illness, 4) Colombia's humid political atmosphere. In the past two years the Senate has consistently refused his resignations...
...Antenor Patiño married, the son of Bolivia's tin tycoon became the husband of one of the best-dressed women in Europe: the stately Cristina, daughter of the Duke and Duchess de Durcal. He also became the nephew-in-law of Spain's late King Alfonso XIII...