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During its 62nd annual Continental Congress in Washington, the Daughters of the American Revolution announced that they had accepted proof that Private Benjamin Doud, born May 10, 1761 in Middletown, Conn., was a direct ancestor of Mamie Doud Eisenhower. The First Lady was forthwith welcomed into the D.A.R., and some 4,000 of the ladies trooped to the White House to welcome their newest member. It was the biggest White House reception since the inauguration, and marked the end of a 15-year rift between the White House and the D.A.R. The spat started when the late F.D.R. once welcomed...
Married. George Charles Montagu, 77, ninth Earl of Sandwich (whose 18th century ancestor, the fourth Earl, refused to interrupt his whist games for meals, insisted instead that a slab of meat and two slices of bread be brought to him at the gaming table, is thus credited with inventing the sandwich); and Amiya Corbin, 50, secretary of a Hollywood Hindu cult; both for the second time; in Huntingdon, England...
...hard, often frustrating work. At first, the Marines landed from a battleship's liberty boats, often in water over their heads because the coxswains refused to take the chance of scraping paint on the beach. But as time wore on, the first ramp-bow boats appeared, ancestor of the nautical monsters of World...
Shorn Trees. The Sussex Ashburn-hams, described in the earlier Burke's as "a family of stupendous antiquity," dating back well before the Norman Conquest, were cut off in the new Burke's without a single pre-Norman ancestor. Sir Fleetwood Ashburnham, 83, present patriarch of the family, was unmoved. "My ancestors," he humphed, "had other things to do during the Conquest than keep their archives straight for Burke's. They were defending England...
Viscount Gage, who claims descent from a supporter of King John's in his war with the barons, had his pedigree lopped by 200 years. The best proved ancestor Pine could give Lady (Harriet Kathleen Grace) Thompson, whose family had for generations enjoyed descent from Odo, brother-in-law of William the Conqueror, was one Oliver Grace, a 16th century M.P. from Tipperary. "I'm challenging Burke's to show by what authority they make our family suffer this indignity," said the outraged Lady...