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...London the family of Tussaud completed last week loyal preparations for the coming Royal Jubilee (TIME, Jan. 7). Proudly the 178-year-old waxworks clan exposed in the great hall they have dedicated to History's good and History's horrid a singularly effective waxworks of King George & Queen Mary in full regalia...
...doubt the highly sensitive Democratic ego, unused to power and position, would pull a fit of hysteria at even a hint that the chief of the clan was not perfect, but others of ordinary sanity are not upset when facts are mentioned...
Less precipitately, more than 60 other ''Hyde Park Roosevelts" were converging toward the family seat above the Hudson. All had one purpose: to be present at the 80th birthday of the matriarch of the clan, Sara Delano Roosevelt. At the birthday luncheon, from her seat beside her only child, she could see all her five grandchildren, three of her great grandchildren. Mr. & Mrs. Norman Hezekiah Davis, Mr. & Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Sr., Col. & Mrs. Edward Mandell House were also on hand to wish the smiling dowager happy birthday. The President presented her with a fur motor robe, proposed...
Back of Governor Edwin Carl Johnson, country politician and son of a Swedish immigrant, was the Adams family organization. An Adams has held elective office in Colorado ever since Statehood (1876). Present political chief of the clan is Junior Senator Alva Blanchard Adams. A conservative small town banker, Senator Adams split with Senator Costigan over the New Deal, would like to oust onetime Republican Costigan from the Democratic Party...
...Episcopal clergyman, eldest of four brothers, all of whom bring their wives and children every summer they can to the old family home at Middletown, R. I. Middletowners will recognize the scenery in Dusk at The Grove, may think they can identify some members of the Rogers clan. Prize-winner Rogers graduated from Browrn, took his master's degree at the University of Chicago, drove an ambulance in France. In 1919 he married and went to teach at the University of Wisconsin. "After a year of correcting freshman themes," he says, "I sought refuge in the French department." After...