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Wilson was born into a distinguished Suffolk family. One ancestor, Lord Raglan, commanded British forces in the Crimean War; another, Lord Cardigan, led the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava; an uncle, General Sir Henry Fuller Maitland Wilson, had a corps at Salonika in World...
...music are a small, fervent, growing body. John Challis is probably the only man in the world who, despite war, continues to manufacture the instrument.* Like most people interested in harpsichords, he is irritated by the lay notion that the instrument is a sort of Pleistocene piano. The true ancestor of the piano is not the harpsichord but the dulcimer, a more primitive stringed instrument played like a xylophone, with little hammers held in the hands. The harpsichord's strings are not hammered but plucked with quills or leather plectra (picks...
...cucumber-calm, he also says: "Heaven help us if the human race ever gets to where it isn't afraid of flying." But about the only time he visibly showed any excitement was in 1941, when his son Robert E. Lee (the General was a distant ancestor) became co-pilot on Ham's regular Los Angeles-San Francisco...
Count Nova de Tajo, 26, glossy but genuine Spanish count, was arrested as a Nazi spy by the FBI. Among plushy U.S. gullibles, he possessed several assets besides his liquid eyes. The Duke of Alba is his cousin, Columbus was his reputed ancestor. He is the husband of Powers Model Wilma Baard, barge captain's full-fashioned daughter who was launched in society in 1938 by such sponsors as Lucius Beebe and Cartoonist Peter Arno. According to the FBI, she never knew that the count was 1) unsuccessfully delving into U.S. war production, 2) unsuccessfully trying to feel...
...Hanna illustrates pioneer house construction by telling the story of Ancestor Washington ("Wash") Hanna's log cabin in Waterloo, Iowa. He skips his chance, however, to draw from the story of his distant kinsman, "President-Marker" Marcus Alonso ("Mark") Hanna (groceries, coal & iron, traction, banking...