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...Still agile later that same day, Truman kidnaped two historical figures to add to the 13 Democratic Presidents whose pictures he hung at a new party clubroom: John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), over the protest of Adams' great-great-grandson that his forebear was a Republican precursor, and Andrew Johnson (1808-75), who was a War Democrat when he became Abraham Lincoln's Vice President. Discoursing further on his reading of history, Harry scaled down every U.S. schoolboy's image of the man who said, "Give me liberty or give me death!": "There...
...experience of the typical nonconformist who combines, by a strange and wonderful alchemy, an inner quietude with an outer fanaticism, and whose sense of God is a sense of burning fire as well as of radiant light. [The scrolls] are the testimonies of men, who, like their greater forebear, stood in the cleft of a rock and saw the glory of God passing...
...Roman Empire. In Britain, however, killjoy scholars stuffily pointed out that Sir Winston is merely a collateral descendant of the great Marlborough-and that only eight years after the princedom† was established it became, through a territorial reshuffle, extinct. Only title thus left to Churchill by his warrior forebear: Prince of the Holy Roman Empire (a tired old title not recognized in England...
...sprightliest of these stories center around Grandfather Myron Adams, a patriarchally bearded forebear who was born in the late 18th century, helped build the Grand Erie Canal, and on occasion proved altogether willing to relate the bizarre hazards and furies of pre-Civil War life in the very language of those wonderful, distant days. His racy and ebullient yarns of plugging canal leaks, spiriting runaway slaves along the underground railway, and keeping books for a traveling circus are crammed with theologasters, dawpluckers, makebates, hoodledashers and such archaic huncamunca. His grandson's version of baseball in the Abner Doubleday country...
...published an interesting profile of Germany's new Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano in the June 20 issue . . . The Lorelei was not written by [his forebear] Clemens Brentano, but by Heinrich Heine . . . When the Nazis came to power, they felt they had to "appropriate" it for the Nordic race. They omitted the name of the Jew Heine and just called it "a folksong." Clemens Brentano, however, has one real claim to fame: he was the joint editor of Des Knaben Wunderhorn, one of the most important folksong collections in the history of German literature...