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...youngest member of the clan was christened Gabriel Archangelovich First, and dedicated "to the service of God and humanity." Last week little Gabriel's name was in the "White Book," a catalogue of those who "renounce themselves and private family ties to become eligible for membership in the universal family of whom the head is Christ and the Father in Heaven." The term "first" was used in lieu of a last name since "the earthly father is totally discounted." After christening, the earthly mother renounced her maternal ties (as will future mothers), turned Gabriel over to the joint parenthood...
Married. Maida Heatter, 33, daughter of schmalzy Radioracle Gabriel Heatter; and Ellis A. Gimbel Jr., fiftyish, Manhattan broker, member of the Gimbel department store clan; both for the second time; in Freeport...
Died. Niall Diarmid Campbell, 77, tenth Duke of Argyll, hereditary chief (Mac Cailean Mhor, a rank created in 1286) of famed Clan Campbell (green, black, navy blue tartan); at his castle in Argyll, Scotland. A crotchety, feudal-minded bachelor, the multi-titled duke (Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, Marquis of Lome and Kintyre) regarded the modern world as a personal outrage, once threatened to toss bureaucratic "snoopers" into his dungeons...
...liquidation. He formed a new outfit called the Spreckels Companies, with the aid of Virgil Dardi, the shrewd boss of Blair Holdings Corp., a California investment firm, and Claus's grandchildren, sisters Alma Spreckels Rosekrans and Dorothy C. Spreckels. The sisters are the only members of the Spreckels clan still interested in the family business...
...Dabney saga, Author Street, a onetime Baptist preacher and former newspaperman, wrote a novel of contemporary Mississippi, In My Father's House, and The Gauntlet (TIME, Dec. 24, 1945), which sold 800,000 copies. In the midst of writing Tomorrow We Reap, which carries the Dabney clan beyond 1893, he bogged down, doubted that he could finish the book. Alabama-born James Childers (Laurel and Straw), an Air Force colonel in World War II and a Dabney fan, volunteered to help him. The result is unspectacular, although followers of the Dabneys will want to read it to find...