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...Naval Construction Corps before he resigned to work for the New England Power Association. Later he served as chairman of the Military Liaison Committee, whose job is to keep the Pentagon within hailing distance of atomic developments, became a consultant for the Joint Research and Development Board, military ancestor...
...Winston Churchill, describing the childhood of his great ancestor, John, Duke of Marlborough...
Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge (the Boyd Neel Orchestra, Boyd Neel conducting; London FFRR, 6 sides). This is one of Britten's best early works; sometimes dramatic and austerely orchestrated, it is also obviously an ancestor of Peter Grimes. Recording: good...
Aside from these qualifications for the post, Seymour practically inherited the presidency. An ancestor, Joseph Colt, received an honorary degree at the first Yale commencement in 1702. His great-great-grandfather, Thomas Clap, was president of Yale College from 1740 to 1766. His great-uncle, Jeremiah Day, filled the same office between 1817 and 1846. His grandfather, Nathan P. Seymour, was a graduate of the college, and his father, Thomas Day Seymour, was Hillhouse Professor of Greek Language and Literature...
...much is known about Yuma Man, for no Yuma skeleton has yet been found. He may or may not have been an ancestor of modern Indians. He made beautiful and characteristic stone weapons, and seems to have lived not long after the glacial period. But no one knows what his clothes or shelters were like. He was certainly no stickler for public sanitation. Jumbled together on 625 square feet of ground were bones of more than 40 buffalo. Among them were fire sites and stone chips flaked off in making new weapons. Apparently Yuma Man, unmindful of smells and flies...