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...taking over the proletarian quarter below. A Government air bomb fell in the garden of the Hotel Washington Irving in which six U. S. tourists were staying. Only Spaniards were killed. One, an expectant mother, convulsively gave birth to two dead babes as she expired. Later the Vicomte de Sibour, with a plane borrowed from London's Drygoods Sportsman H. Gordon Selfridge Jr. (TIME, Aug. 17), began taking off tourists, four at a time. To rescue the 19 remaining, General Queipo de Llano sent from Seville a giant German Junkers transport, escorted by a scouting plane. This outfit safely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: The Republic v. The Republic | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

Accompanied by his daughter Violette, Vicomtesse de Sibour, and by a French-Swedish actress named Marcelle Rogez whom he plans to bring to the attention of Hollywood, Harry Gordon Selfridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 4, 1935 | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...Adrien Bonnefoy-Sibour, former Prefect of the suburban Department of Seine et Oise became the new prefect of police, popped quickly into the blue-papered office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Fall of a Corsican | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...Flying Gypsies" is the title of a book dealing with the ten thousand mile vagabondage by air soon to be brought out by Putnam's. Its authors, the Vicomte and Vicomtess de Sibour are eveil now on a flight from Paris to the Kenya Colony on the East Coast of Africa where they have a ranch...

Author: By B. B., | Title: BOOKENDS | 3/8/1930 | See Source »

...Sibours. A terrific Burmese storm last week discomfited Vicomte Jacques de Sibour and his wife, daughter of London's department store tycoon, Harry Gordon Selfridge. The de Sibours are flying around the world. After landing at Moulmein, near Rangoon, the couple took off in frisky weather, attained Bangkok, Siam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights of the Week: Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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