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Gustavus Lascelles Hamilton-Russell, son of Viscount Boyne and nephew of the Earl of Harewood (brother-in-law of George VI). His ancestor Sir Frederick Hamilton had distinguished himself fighting Germans under Sweden's great King Gustavus Adolphus. Guardsman Hamilton-Russell's son Gustavus Michael George, aged 8 and the final survivor of his family, is now heir to Lord Boyne...
...Washington. D. C., a census taker stumbled into a wooden shack, found a grizzled old man living with eight pet canaries. His name: Daniel Webster. His age: 74. His occupation: carpenter. His collateral ancestor: the late (1782-1852) Senator from Massachusetts...
...Virginia. George Washington Lee Kinsolving, a Tidewater aristocrat who once cut short a long sermon with, "Parson, isn't it grog time?", was bound that his only son should enter the church. Last week a great-grandson of old George Kinsolving did something as hearty as his ancestor's remark. He announced that he was leaving his big, rich, famed Boston parish for a small church in the little town of Princeton...
Last week Japanese reverently celebrated the 2,600th anniversary of the assumption of divine rule by Hirohito's ancestor Jimmu, first of Japan's unbroken (but, thanks to some perfectly divine concubines, occasionally knotted) string of 124 emperors. To Occidentals, the celebration looked like so much hocuspocus. This scoffing attitude was symptomatic of the blind misunderstanding of Japan's ways which last week threatened-in the opinion of some sober commentators, more immediately than Europe's troubles-to get the U. S. into...
...Piccadilly provost marshal remanded to Bow Street one Rev. Maurice Kenal Exham, 71, former Dorset vicar, for "wearing a military uniform calculated falsely to suggest that he was an Army captain." Quick was the vicar to explain: 1) the family of his 12th-Century ancestor, Sir Richard Exham, had been granted the right to wear military uniform "in perpetuity" by Henry II for aid in the Irish troubles; 2) the right had never been abrogated...