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Died. Jacobo Maria del Pilar Carlos Manuel Stuart Fitz-James y Falco, 74, 17th Duke of Alba de Tormes, Spain's wartime ambassador to the Court of St. James's; after long illness; in Lausanne, Switzerland. Grandest of Spain's grandees, he owned castles in almost every major city, had some 65 titles, including that of Duke of Berwick (a Stuart title not recognized by Britain). When civil war broke out in 1936, the Anglophile Duke sought to swing Britain to Franco's cause. After World War II, he disputed Franco's right to rule...
...Cambridge pigeonry has lost at least 30 of its members since the hawk--Falco Peregrinus Anatum--arrived on October 16, according to a count made by Peter L. Ames '53 of the Ornithological Society. Ames climbed the tower last Friday with the clockwinder to count carcasses dropped by the hawk from the upper roof...
...Babcock of the Maintenance Department have been unfair to a superb creature when you refer to the Memorial Hall pigeon-killer as a "huge chicken hawk." Leaving aside the fact there is no recognized species of "chicken hawk," this particular bird is a Duck Hawk (Falco peregrinus anatum), the American version of the falcon, traditionally used for hunting...
...Falco peregrinus anatum, a duck hawk or maybe two duck hawks, will be as inviolable as last year's owl, Chief Alvin R. Randall of the University Police promised last night...
...newsmen from the days when he ran the State Department's Near East desk, talked over old times with the New York Times's Bertram Hulen (veteran of 23 years on the State Department beat), TIME'S Jack Werkley, Business Week's Thomas Falco, WOR's Pulitzer-prizewinning H. R. Knickerbocker...