Milestones, Jun. 12, 1933

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."*

Engaged. Charles ("Chuck") Breasted, 34, son of the University of Chicago's famed Archeologist James Henry Breasted; and Martha Ferguson, 25, daughter of Mrs. John C....

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