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...Madrid, wellborn Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, 32, is the girl who couldn't catch a man. Her three brothers and three sisters had long since married. Fabiola has large, dark brown eyes and is an attractive young woman, though no raving beauty. Educated in Paris, she speaks perfect English and French and German, as well as Spanish, swims well and plays adequate tennis. Instead of attending university; she took nurse's training in military hospitals in San Sebastian and Madrid. In her spare time, Fabiola designed Christmas cards and published a children...
...Fabiola went to Switzerland to visit Queen Victoria Eugenia, widow of Spain's Alfonso XIII. While there, she met for the first time lanky (6 ft.), retiring Baudouin, 30, King of the Belgians. There were other meetings during the summer, but Fabiola continued to live quietly in her Madrid apartment, and continued her normal pursuits: churchgoing, charitable works, visits to her mother in the Calle Zurbano man sion which is large enough and magnificent enough to have been considered by the U.S. Government for its embassy in Spain...
Last week Fabiola let her family in on a secret, flew to Paris with her mother, and went on to Belgium. At week's end in Brussels, the secret was revealed to the world when King Baudouin announced his engagement to Fabiola de Mora. Madrid society gasped. "Astounding!" cried one count in clipped accents and added, "Are you absolutely sure it's Fabiola?" One of her friends said loyally, "She is very devout, very Spanish, just what foreigners think most Spanish girls are like-not like the new generation." Generalissimo Franco wired King Baudouin his congratulations...
After taking in his first bullfight. Tourist Jack Paar, 42, hastened to a ranch outside Madrid to film his own version of the corrida-with a cow. But once Novillero Paar had made his classic entrance, a wag decided to cow him with a substitute, a real toro-a dilemma on whose horns the comedian had no desire to be impaled. Not realizing that his foe was a specially trained, docile beast, Jumping Jack bolted for the barrera but, unfortunately, he didn't quite clear it. His award: no ears, no tail, no hoofs, two bruised ribs...
Like many Europeans, Juan Antonio Gaya-Nuňo, director of Madrid's Velasquez Institute, becomes outraged whenever he thinks about the steady flight of European art treasures to the U.S. But he does not put all the blame on the Americans. Says he, in the French magazine Connaissance des Arts: It is selfish and dollar-mad Europeans who have really done the damage...