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Born. To Prince Alessandro Torlonia, 31, and Princess Beatriz Torlonia, 34, eldest daughter of the late ex-King Al fonso XIII of Spain : a daughter, Olympia, their fourth child; somewhere in Switzer land...
Ralph 124C 41+ and Immortality. Born in Luxembourg, Hugo took an electric bell apart at the age of six. At 13 he was allowed to install a telephone system in a Luxembourg convent (he says he got a special dispensation to enter it from Pope Leo XIII). At 22, having moved to Manhattan, he built one of the first amateur wireless transmitters with which he could ring a bell a quarter of a mile away. But then Hugo's imagination began outstripping his technical resources...
Franco must go, clear the way for restoration of the Spanish monarchy. Monarchist agitation already had gone so far that Franco last June offered the exiled Don Juan, son of the late Alfonso XIII, a half hearted proposition to return, under Franco domination. Don Juan cagily turned the offer down...
...Church's great human hope is embodied in a series of papal encyclicals of which the two most fundamental are Rerum Novarum (May 15, 1891) and Quadragesima Anno (May 15, 1931). Not long after Eugenio Pacelli was born, Leo XIII looked beyond the Vatican and saw European civilization sick in body from social septicemia and sick at heart from the standing threat of war. In Rerum Novarum Leo put a fearless finger on the morbid core of Europe's social sickness. He attacked the misery of Europe's impoverished masses and those responsible for their condition...
...Walter Lippmann and a pious churchman might agree that Leo XIII was attacking not liberalism as defined by Lippmann in The Good Society, but the common perversion of liberalism...