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When tragedy comes to the German grand ducal House of Hesse it strikes with all its fateful weight. First great blow to the ancient German family was the discovery that it had contributed to the spread of the dread blood disease, hemophilia. Marriage of two princes of Hesse to Princess Beatrice, Princess Alice, daughters of England's Queen Victoria, carried this curse to the blood of the imperial Russian and royal Spanish families. Princess Alice married Prince Louis of Hesse and was the mother of Alexandra, last Empress of Russia, who in turn transmitted hemophilia to her only...
...founders of the modern architecture movement in Europe, Gropius directed the famous Grand Ducal School at Weimar, Germany from 1918 to 1928 and practiced in London for a few years before coming to the University last spring. He is especially noted for his work in industrial and housing projects...
...roomed American Embassy in Madrid have eaten few delicacies during the last 15 months, but have nevertheless enjoyed an abundance of rich milk, fresh eggs, even non-rancid olive oil-items generally missing from the present Madrid cuisine. The American newsmen, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans now residents of the once ducal palace have to thank no U. S. diplomatic or consular representative for these wholesome victuals, but Captain Frank William Cannaday, a gloomy, stubborn Virginian who fought in the Spanish-American War and prospected for gold in Venezuela before becoming a poultry farmer on the Castilian plateau...
...which Vigow as usual took best of breed. But by virtue of his 19 group victories during the year, the American Kennel Club last week named Vigow of Romanoff best U. S.-bred dog of 1936. Winner of the same distinction in 1935, Vigow again posed with grand ducal composure on a table in the Club's offices while Executive Vice President Charles T. Inglee handed his proud owner a prize check...
...Walter Gropius was appointed director of the rather stodgy Grand Ducal Art School at Weimar. He attracted a group of young students interested in functional, non-eclectic building design and in the economic, social and philosophical ideas that went with it. Early Nazi activity in Weimar made the town too hot for him; in 1925 Director Gropius was glad when the city of Dessau offered funds and a site for a long, barrack-like dormitory and school building which Gropius called the Bauhaus (Building House...