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Elsewhere in Texas, John Nance Garner unbuckled his belt and took it easy by playing piggyback with great-grandson John Garner Curry, 2½ (see cut). The ex-Vice President was looking no farther ahead than his 70th birthday, next fortnight...
...next afternoon, 3,500 people crowded into the Library's rotunda to watch a public ceremony. Lincoln's great-grandson, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, and General Grant's grandson, Major General Ulysses S. Grant III, were introduced. So were 14 authors of more than 100 books on Lincoln. None spoke; they simply stepped up on a platform, bowed silently, and stepped down...
...Turner ranch, and down into the second and third generations, Old 81st's descendants added more glory to his name. One of his sons, T. Royal Rupert 60th, drew a cash offer -refused-of $60,000. A great-grandson, Del Zento I, sold last year for a record price of $51,000 (TIME, Jan. 14, 1946). All told, Old 81st's descendants were valued at well over...
Froth of a Flood. Last week in New Delhi, Queen-Empress Victoria's great-grandson, Rear Admiral Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India, was working hard to get out of India as fast as he could. To Hindu and Moslem politicos responsible for setting up two new dominions in India before mid-August he sent memos reminding them "only 62 more days," "only 55 more days." The British did not rely on Hindu and Moslem leaders' continuing to work together. The British wanted to clear out before India blew up in their faces...
Divorced. Anthony Drexel Duke, 28, millionaire (Lucky Strike) great-grandson of Tobacco Baron Washington Duke; by Alice Rutgers Duke, 26, pretty, freckled Johnson & Johnson (Band-Aid) kin; after seven years, two children; in Reno...