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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile sick Juan's healthy mother Queen Victoria Eugénie, who rushed to Manhattan when her eldest son Don Alfonso, Count of Covadonga, was nearly dying of hemophilia (TIME, Sept. 28), continued last week to prove that by firmly declining U. S. publicity it is perfectly easy to escape it. As a British Princess in her own right and a granddaughter of the late great Queen Victoria, Queen Victoria Eugénie last week visited the British Embassy in Washington as the house guest of Lady Lindsay, avoided the notoriety of meeting "those people," Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt...
...answer charges of misbehavior on his Eastern Shore estate last duck-hunting season. The triple-barreled charge: 1) failure to plug his repeating shotgun to three-shell capacity; 2) failure to have a Federal stamp on his hunting license; 3) shooting over a baited area. Maximum penalty on each count: $500 fine, six months' imprisonment...
Meanwhile the Second Freshman team defeated the M.I.T. Sophomore squad, 18-12 yesterday in a close, hard-fought game. With the count all tied up at 12 all in the fourth period, Lutz intercepted an Engineer pass on the Crimson 30-yard line, and coasted up to the M.I.T. 20. At that point he flipped a lateral to Roosevelt, who went over for the winning score...
...string around his neck to remind him of the fable about the tortoise and the hare. Last week he remembered both the hare's boast and his own. Once, when he stopped to put imported gasoline into his car and imported mineral water down his own throat, Count Brivio took the lead. Nuvolari, on his way again long before anyone else could catch up, took it back after the next lap, kept it to the end. After his 75th trip around the four-mile course - at 150 m.p.h. down the straightaway, less than 40 m.p.h. around the hairpin turns...
...Died. Count Louis Hamori ("Cheiro"), 69, celebrated oldtime palmist; after long illness; in Hollywood. Author of a book on palmistry at 13, he amassed $250,000 from rich female clients, owned an English-language newspaper in Paris, The American Register. On the night he died, said his nurse, the clock outside his room struck the hour of one thrice...