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...Revolutionary record is more aggressive in the other half of the Saltonstall line. Four Brookses (his mother's kin) fought at Lexington Green. Old Abigail Brooks served hot chocolate to the minutemen coming home from the Revolution's first engagement. A Brooks was a general at Valley Forge, and later governor of Massachusetts.* Other Brookses spilled their blue blood against the British at Lake Erie, and against the Seminoles in Florida. But the Saltonstalls fought in 1812 and 1861; one was cited for gallantry in the Civil War, as commander of an unseaworthy ferryboat converted into a gunboat...
Born. To Broadway Producer Jed Har ris, 43, and Cinemactress Louise Platt, 27: a daughter, Abigail; in Los Angeles...
...Princess Abigail Kawananakoa, one of the last members of Hawaiian royalty, offered her sprawling villa near Honolulu to the U.S.O. as a rest home and recreation center. Hawaii's Republican National Committeewoman for 12 years, she is the mother of ex-playboy Prince David, given a ten-year manslaughter sentence in 1937 for cutting his half-caste sweetheart to death...
Born. To Richard Krebs (Jan Valtin -Out of the Night) and Abigail Krebs, 17: a son; in Danbury, Conn...
Valtin-Krebs was living last week in New York with his girl-wife, 17-year-old Abigail Harris. Around the former German terrorist and Red agent swirled a storm of conjecture and argument: was his autobiography true or a hoax? Valtin-Krebs & friends said it was true; no respectable evidence has yet been produced to show that it was anything else. And if it was true, under present alien laws, he was liable to deportation back to the Germany whence he had fled...