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...Over a long luncheon and until late into the afternoon, avoiding mention of Don Juan's own claims to the throne (Franco has never forgiven him for certain anti-Franco remarks made in 1945), they discussed the education of Don Juan's son, Juan Carlos, great-great-grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria. The 17-year-old Juanito has just completed his secondary education at Madrid's aristocratic St. Isideo high school and is at present staying with his exiled parents in Estoril, Portugal. The question, already taken up in an exchange of letters...
Republican prospects in Wyoming, which looked bright after the suicide of Democratic Senator Lester C. Hunt (TIME. June 28), seem to have faded away like the mountain summer. G.O.P. Congressman William Henry Harrison, grandson and great-great-grandson of Presidents Benjamin and William Henry Harrison, won the Republican nomination, but only after a bitter primary fight with former G.O.P. State Chairman Ewing T. Kerr. Wyoming's tourist business is down about 15% and retail business is off about 10%. A drought has grown worse, and Democratic Candidate Joseph O'Mahoney, a veteran of 10 years...
Died. Marquis Pierre de Chambrun, 89, great-great-grandson of the Marquis de La Fayette; of a heart ailment; in Marvejols, France. An honorary American citizen by virtue of his descent from La Fayette (and husband of Cincinnati-bred Margaret Rives Nichols), Old Statesman de Chambrun put in nearly half a century in the French government, is best remembered as the only Senator to vote against giving Marshal Petain dictatorial powers and establishing the sellout Vichy regime...
...Republicans, 47 Democrats and one Wayne Morse. Appointee Crippa will not run for the full Senate term in the November election. Leading contender in that race: Republican William Henry Harrison, Wyoming's only U.S. Representative, who is a grandson of President Benjamin Harrison and a great-great-grandson of President William Henry Harrison...
Died. Charles Francis Adams (TIME, Nov. 4, 1946), 87, great-great-grandson of President John Adams, great-grandson of John Quincy, cousin of Henry, yachtsman and onetime Secretary of the Navy (1929-33); after long illness; in Boston. He became an ardent Hoover supporter, but as Navy Secretary bitterly opposed Hoover's reductions in naval appropriations. America's leading yachtsman, he skippered the Resolute to victory over the late Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV in the 1920 America's Cup races, at the age of 73 brought off an unparalleled sweep...