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Shimmering in white satin, trailing a ten-foot train, Senorita Sampedro approached the altar to exchange rings, Latin fashion. Her bridegroom, she knew, had broken down in sobs the night before, when told that ex-King Alfonso XIII irrevocably disapproved. Now he was smiling. Beside him stood the only Spanish grandee who could be induced to come, Duke Manuel Almadova, as best...
...Alfonso XIII!'" he cried, and spat...
Meanwhile long-jawed Alfonso XIII happened to be in Rome paying his respects to Pope Pius. Day after the law was signed came a ringing Papal encyclical, Dilectissimi Nobis ("To our most dear") Bishops, Clergy, and People of Spain. Excerpts...
Engaged. Alfonso, 26, Prince of Asturias, eldest son of Alfonso XIII and heir-claimant to the Spanish throne, and Senorita Edelmira Sampedro, 27, daughter of a Cuban merchant, whom the Prince met at a Lausanne sanitarium where he was treated for hemophilia. In the face of his father's bitter opposition to the match, the Prince was quoted: "I love her and want to marry her. Let Juan have the throne...
...WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7 (XIII) Chemistry 6 Mallinckrodt MB23 Chemistry 33 Mallinckrodt MB9 Chinese 1 Boylston 26 Classical Archaeology 1b Sever 29 Classical Philology 30 Sever 29 Comp. Literature 19 Harvard 6 Economics A Dr. Anderson, Sec. H, 1 Memorial Hall Dr. Brown, Sec. O Memorial Hall Dr. Crane, Sec. A Q Memorial Hall Mr. Daly, Sec. R Memorial Hall Mr. Eaton, Sec. N Memorial Hall Professor Frickey, Sec. J, M Memorial Hall Professor Ham, Sec. G Memorial Hall Dr. Hunt, Sec. C Memorial Hall Mr. Leighton, Sec. B Memorial Hall Dr. Phinney, Sec. P Memorial Hall Mr. Ross...