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Then up rose redhaired, freckled Neil, wounded officer-veteran of World War II, and a man likely some day to be president of Grand Republic's Second National Bank. He said: "I have learned that my mother . . . is descended from . . . an ancestor . . . who was . . . a full-blooded Negro. Which makes every one of us, technically, either a Negro or the close relative of one." Neil's announcement is followed by screams of denial, rage and panic...
...Oyster Bay and Hyde Park. Roosevelts, all distant cousins to one another, had for a common ancestor Claes Martenszen van Roosevelt, a Dutch trader who came to New Amsterdam around...
Married. Diana Denyse, Countess of Erroll, 20, who, as hereditary Lord High Constable of Scotland (an honor bestowed upon Ancestor Sir Gilbert Hay by Robert Bruce in 1314 after the Battle of Bannockburn), ranks within Scotland's borders immediately after the Royal Family; and Captain Rupert Iain Kay Moncreiffe, 27, special assistant to Britain's Ambassador to the Soviet Union; in London...
...Galesworthy once pointed out, the good biographer and the good critic are almost as rare as the unicorn because of a weakness of many to forego sentimental impulses. Further, he must steel himself against the susceptibilities of ancestor worship...
Many anthropologists believe that Man developed from a small, feeble ancestor. Gradually he grew bigger until he reached his present peak. But last week Dr. Ralph von Koenigswald, Dutch paleontologist, pressed a new theory. He thinks that Man grew gigantic a million years ago, then shrank to his present size...