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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marquette, Mich. Polish-born Bishop Joseph Casimir Plagens had by last week accustomed Italian, French, German and Polish Catholics to hearing him orate and converse fluently in their languages. Still vacant remained the post Bishop Plagens left to take over the diocese of Sault Ste. Marie & Marquette-the auxiliary Bishopric of Detroit, see of Bishop Michael James Gallagher...
...friends pass off the puzzle of the contradictory artist by saying he has a dual personality. Born on a railroad train in Kanas 43 years ago while his parents were migrating to California, John Carroll grew up in San Francisco and on his father's cattle ranch, boasts that he "knew" the Barbary Coast intimately before it was spoiled." He studied engineering at the University of California until his practical father gave in, shipped him off to study art under Frank Duveneck in Cincinnati. "After six months," John Carroll recalls, "I was sure I knew more about painting than...
...Born. To Don Jaime de Borbón, 27, second son of Spain's deposed King Alfonso XIII; and Emanuela de Dampierre de Borbón: their first child, a son; in Rome. Name: Alfonso...
...current number of Vu, weekly Parisian picture-paper. In its April 1 issue, Vu had devoted a full page to an account of the sextuplets' fabulous birth, pictured the six bouncing boys, told how Nestlé's milk had made them grow. When the last child was born, gay Mme Vicogne was reported to have said: "Let's call him 'Jean-Ai-Assez.' [I've had enough]." This number of Vu also offered a page of photographs of some extraordinary animals. There was a cow-pigeon, a sheep-duck, a zebra headed like...
...Referee's gullible and light-fingered editors were not the only dupes of the sextuplet yarn, which had been illustrated with six views of the same infant. To an inquiring U. S. doctor, Vu solemnly replied that the six little boys now had a sister, born three months after the multiple delivery...