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Died. Juan de la Cierva, 74, reactionary Minister of Justice in Spam's last cabinet under King Alfonso; of diabetes; at Madrid's Norwegian Legation, where he had hidden all through the civil war. He died not knowing that his namesake son, inventor of the autogiro, had been killed in a K. L. M. air crash 13 months before (TIME...
Divorced. Alfonso, Count of Covadonga, hemophilic former Crown Prince of Spain; by dark Marta Rocafort, his second Cuban wife within a year; in Havana...
...members elected to the Advocate are: Alfonso Ossorio '38, Robert W. Anderson '39, Alfred Eisner '39, Martin Flavin, Jr. '41, Malcolm Mackenzie '41, and Westmore Willcox '41 to the Literary Board, and Granger F. Kenly '41 to the Business Board...
...mother of Alexandra, last Empress of Russia, who in turn transmitted hemophilia to her only son, Tsarevitch Alexis. Princess Beatrice married Prince Henry of Battenberg, son of Grand Duke Alexander of Hesse, and was the mother of Victoria of Spain, who passed on the curse to her son, Prince Alfonso, onetime heir to the Spanish throne, and the late Prince Gonzalo. Last week the ancient curse pointed up in a new form as the House of Hesse leaped into another tragic role in world headlines...
...defends as a "forlorn" patriot the opèra bouffe Boris Savinkov (prerevolutionary Russian spy who worked both for the Tsarist police and for Nihilists, reported on each to the other and had to maintain card files to keep his machinations straight); represents the fun-loving, light-witted Alfonso XIII of Spain (chiefly notable during his reign for his gambols on the Riviera, his gambling at Deauville) as a monarch "cool, determined . . . dauntless," generally much misunderstood...