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...upper nobility. Fabiola's father, Gonzalo, who died in 1957, was the fourth Marqués de Casa Riera, and her mother claims descent from the royal houses of the extinct Spanish kingdoms of Aragon and Navarre. Last January Fabiola went to Switzerland to visit Queen Victoria Eugenia, widow of Spain's Alfonso XIII. While there, she met for the first time lanky (6 ft.), retiring Baudouin, 30, King of the Belgians. There were other meetings during the summer, but Fabiola continued to live quietly in her Madrid apartment, and continued her normal pursuits: churchgoing, charitable works, visits...
...Firpo leave the bulk of his estimated $4,000,000 estate? To his longtime great and good friend. Miss Blanca Picard-a bequest his relatives are now contesting in Buenos Aires. The argument over Hammerstein's reported $10 million to $15 million estate was not among heirs (his widow will receive 49%, with his three children dividing the remainder), but between tax-hungry states-New York, where he worked, and Pennsylvania, where he resided...
...soth anniversary of his death, the Portland Museum of Art put on an exhibition of a highly personal sort. There were only three of the artist's oils, only eight of his watercolors; but there were plenty of reminders of the man himself. From his nephew's widow came three dolls, one suspended from a garter, that Homer used as models. There were his old watercolor brushes, a newly discovered sketch book, a rumpled storm cap, a fishing net he used as a prop. These were the artist's simple possessions-and for long periods of time...
Died. Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, 79, widow of Pennsylvania's former Republican Governor Gifford Pinchot, herself a headline-making political activist twice defeated in congressional campaigns; of a circulatory ailment; in Washington...
Died. Dowager Lady Bailey, 69, only daughter of the fifth Baron Rossmore and widow of South African Mining Magnate Sir Abe Bailey, a dauntless aviatrix who, after learning to fly in 1926, soon set an altitude record for light planes, subsequently survived at least three forced landings-in Russia, Tanganyika and the Sahara-to ferry World War II craft for the R.A.F. at age 50; of cancer; in Cape Town, South Africa...