Word: infanta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...collection. The famed U.S. Rainbow Division uncovered the cache last week in a cellar at Saint Johann, Austria. Some of the contents: five major Rembrandts, including the great Large Self Portrait; Pieter Broeughael's rousing Peasant Dance and his terrifying Tower of Babel; Velasquez' portrait of the Infanta Maria Margarita; Rubens' Saint Jerome. The Nazi custodian of this treasure, one Major Fabian, had a request to make: for "taking such good care of the collection" didn't 15 of his officers rate free tuition at an Austrian university...
...position to confiscate something "in the name of the German state"-as, for example, the Rothschild collection in Paris -Goring preferred more formal methods, with at least a fiction of legality. Göring did get some fine things from the Rothschild collection, such as a portrait of the Infanta Margarita Teresa by Velasquez, but Hofer insisted that everything taken from the Rothschild collection (which he said was "collected") was later appraised by French experts and a price paid to the French state-which, of course, was considerably in debt to Germany...
Died. Elsie Moore Torlonia, 52, Brooklyn-born hardware heiress who married and divorced the late Prince Torlonia of Italy; in Manhattan. Her son, Prince Allesandro, married the Infanta Beatriz, daughter of Alfonso XIII; her younger daughter, Donna Marina, is the wife of Tennist Francis X. Shields. Mrs. Torlonia dropped her title, regained her U.S. citizenship after her divorce...
...Lisbon this week the exiles went to Senhor Joly's villa. Carol telephoned to Seville, promised to "pay in full" his $852 Andalusia Palace Hotel bill. Madame Lupescu asked that her two Pekingese and two fox terriers be cared for by the Infanta Beatriz de Bourbon y Orleans, Carol's aunt. Meanwhile Seville police broke open such hand baggage as Carol and Magda had left behind, found mostly tinned foodstuffs which in Spain today are precious luxuries. Missing was any trace of the fat manuscript of memoirs upon which Carol Hohenzollern has been working for months...
...King tires of everything; some day he will tire of me," she had said). Near her sat the two of his four sons whom hemophilia had not killed: tall, goodlooking Don Juan (for whom he had renounced his claim to the throne) and deaf Don Jaime. Wild-eyed Infanta Beatriz was there, and Alfonso may have remembered that she had driven the car in which Son Gonzalo was riding the night a slight accident made him bleed to death (the King had paced his room that night, sobbing like a child). His plump, favorite daughter, Infanta Maria Christina...