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...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...
...arrest, but by then he had left the country. Some experts say that he ended offering his services to the Sultan in Constantinople, where the laws were more lenient, but the present Duke of Beaufort's family has denied researchers access to the family records on their notorious forebear. As for No. 19 Cleveland Street, it was torn down in the 1920s to make way for an eminently respectable institution, which by sheer geographical happenstance is called the Middlesex Hospital...
...larkish script concerns a descendant of Victor Frankenstein-a level and kindly sort who is forever being ridiculed for his forebear's madness. An edict in an old will summons young Frankenstein to middle Europe, and he travels to Transylvania by train. ("Pardon me, boy," he inquires, "is this the Transylvania Station?"). He is greeted by Igor (Marty Feldman), a hunchbacked servant with a movable hump and askew eyes, and conducted to mist-shrouded Castle Frankenstein. Soon he stumbles on Victor's secret experimental notes, bound in handsome leather and stamped HOW I DID IT. "What a fruitcake...
...trying to keep the high crimes to a minimum. Breck Stancill (Richard Burton) knows a little better. A Southern aristocrat gone to seed, he usually stays inside his house on top of Stancill's Mountain, spending his days mostly by swilling Ballantine's Scotch and remembering a forebear who was strung up by the townspeople for being soft on slavery. Stancill lets blacks live on his mountain rent free, but he is hardly a fighting liberal. Nevertheless, he sure riles the good old boys, especially Butt Cutt Gates (Cameron Mitchell...
...prescient forebear of Ruether and Daly saw no problem in Jesus' manhood. Nor did she seem rattled by masculine pronouns for God. Lady Julian of Norwich, an anchoress who lived in Chaucerian England in the 14th century, laid out her prophetic theology in a book called Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love. "God, Almighty, is our kindly Father," wrote Lady Julian. "God, all-Wisdom, is our kindly Mother." As for the Second Person in the Blessed Trinity-the Person incarnated in Jesus Christ-Lady Julian found that he was strongly feminine: "our Mother in kind, in whom we are grounded...