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Died. Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor, 84, Spanish portrait painter (among his subjects: ex-King Alphonso XIII, Portugal's Dictator Salazar), who headed the famed Prado Museum from 1921 to 1936, was succeeded by Pablo Picasso during the civil war, regained the post after Franco's victory; of a heart attack; in Madrid...
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Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchess of Montpensier, Chatellerault and St. Fargeau, Sovereign of Dombes, Princess of Joinville and Laroche-sur-Yon. Dauphine of Auvergne, and Fille de France, was something of a royal office joke. But since the office was the 17th century French court-Louis XIII was her uncle, Louis XIV her first cousin-the lady left footnotes in the sands of time. Biographer V. (for Victoria Mary) Sackville-West, 67, has written a witty, informal, entertaining book about the bedeviled woman who was known not by her titles, but with simple Bourbon haughtiness as plain Mademoiselle...
...issued his first encyclical last week, and it proved to be a fatherly message of warning, hope and encouragement. Ad Petri Cathedram (To the Chair of Peter), the circular letter's opening words by which it will be known, is neither a trail-blazing social document (like Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum in 1891) nor a detailed doctrinal exposition (like Pius XII's Humani Generis in 1950). It is instead notable for the familiarity of its style, the range of its concern and the warmth with which it faces its subject: On Promoting-Under the Impulse...
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