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Chris Simpson's father, a violent-tempered Italian, present whereabouts unknown, married Chris's Irish mother, present whereabouts unknown, when she was 15. They begat nine children, whom the father never supported and frequently abused. When Chris, the youngest child, was five, the State of Michigan decided that his home was no place for him, instead placed him in its Children's Institute at Ann Arbor. A year later Chris was released to Mrs. Harriet Atwood, wealthy farmer's widow, began attending the one-room Bigelow Rural School in Calhoun County, Michigan. He grew faster than...
...from Kansas. Earl Browder was born in Wichita, 47 years ago. He never lets himself or his public forget it. Without a paternal grandfather who fought the British in the War of 1812, a father who begat six Middlewesterners, Comrade Browder might find it awkward to say, as he often does say: "Communism is 20th Century Americanism...
Seventy-four years ago Frederik's beauteous great-aunt Alexandra traveled from Copenhagen to London to marry robustious Edward of Wales, who became King Edward VII, who begat George V, who begat Edward VIII, who abdicated in favor of George VI (Danish Frederik's second cousin), whose Coronation was at once the most splendid and the most pumped-up party that Europe has seen this century. Prince Frederik and his princess were returning from it for another and very different kind of party: the Silver (25th) Jubilee of the reign of the world's tallest monarch. Frederik...
...belief that if a childless couple adopt a baby they may soon after produce one of their own is as old as the Bible. Abraham's Sarah bore Isaac 14 years after Ishmael entered their Canaan tent. Jacob's Rachel finally bore Joseph and Benjamin after Jacob begat ten sons and a daughter by other women of his tenthold. A reasoned explanation of such phenomena was offered last week by a zoologist of Burlington...
...Grouper was A. S. Loudon Hamilton, the tall, burly, pink-cheeked Scot who is second in com mand in the Group's world army. It was in his Oxford rooms that the movement received its first impetus in 1921. Subsequently a footballer at Colgate University, Grouper Hamilton married, begat two children, continued to live on a basis of faith without ever accepting a salaried position. Said he last week: "It takes God's guidance to make a Scot accept a situation like that...