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...state at the decisive moments. Half of Richelieu's political lifetime was spent in getting behind the wheel. He got there first by attaching himself to the fat, sly, greedy, frightened Florentine, Marie de Medici, widow of Henri IV. She reigned for her 15-year-old son, Louis XIII, whom she used to spank publicly to the delight of the tittering court. But at the very moment Richelieu got power, he lost it. Louis XIII decided to do a little spanking of his own, banished Mother Marie to the country, Richelieu to Avignon. The baffled statesman had to begin...
Pipe-sucking Oscar Bruno Bach began his career in Germany. At the age of 18 he made a wrought-metal Bible cover for Pope Leo XIII. He came to America 26 years ago, set up shop in Manhattan as a metal craftsman and industrial designer. Turning out Renaissance church doors, table lamps, fruit bowls, salt shakers and a streamlined typewriter, he inspired publicity agents to call him "the American Cellini...
Married. Francis X. Shields, 29, Manhattan laundryman, onetime No. 1 U. S. tennist; and Donna Marina Torlonia, younger daughter of U. S. Hardware Heiress Elsie Moore Torlonia and sister of the Prince of Civitella Cesi, who is married to the Infanta Beatrix, daughter of Alfonso XIII; in North Conway, N. H. Fortnight before, Shields was divorced by Socialite Rebecca Tenney Shields...
Organizer of Ukrainian labor on railroad construction in Canadian Rockies. Anarchist in Spain at time of plot against life of Alfonso XIII. Student in Paris of Marx, statistics, literature, the Mass Mind...
...Spain and its tubby little Caudillo had been working up to a celebration of the first anniversary of peace. On April 1, 1939, Generalissimo Franco issued his last communique, announcing the end of 32 months of civil war. This year, for the first time since the days of Alfonso XIII, Seville celebrated Holy Week with traditional splendor, and to Seville last fortnight went General Franco to give his blessing to Spain's return to Catholicism.* Back in Madrid, he was acclaimed by thousands of Madrileños in a Falange-sponsored demonstration. He held a reception for the diplomatic...