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Staffers have also had help in tracing their family trees. An uncle of the London bureau's Christopher Byron spent 20 years researching the family, which includes the poet Lord Byron and Ralph de Burun, an aide to William the Conqueror. Senior Editor Otto Friedrich claims Bismarck's Foreign Minister, Bernhard von Billow, as a forebear as well as the French Dukes of Guise. Senior Editor John Elson notes that an ancestor of his grew the first pineapple in England, from a seedling brought back from the South Seas by Captain Cook...
...weekend in Cambridge. After all they even argue about whether the term "jazz" was derived from the Creole Chasse-beau or a sexual association, derived from jasm--so you won't be trailblazing, merely patience-breaking, if you try to discover pure jazz. Like Disraeli's put-down of Bismarck's revelling in the label "honest broker," ("There is no honest broker") the phrase is a contradiction in terms...
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...HENRY ("Bismarck") KISSINGER, p. veteran: Claims to stand above league affiliations; even refuses to wear a uniform--but they couldn't win without him; out of the Harvard minor league system; confesses to being a loner, "I just don't like people...
...that would probably have brought a total of $14,000. A neighbor heard the power saws at work and phoned police, who arrested the thieves. Such arrests are the exception, though, since guarding parks or forests is nearly impossible. "Some owners sleep by their lots," said a policeman in Bismarck, N.D. "But last night it was 18° below zero...