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...Mormon, who is fighting as hard for his country as anybody else, might draw what comfort he could from the fact that his church once more (after a ten-year lapse) has a Presiding Patriarch. For this sole Mormon hereditary position the conference last week chose Joseph F. Smith, great-grandson of Founder Joseph Smith's brother Hyrum, who was killed by the same Illinois mob that lynched Joseph in 1844.* The new patriarch is 43, father of five, heads the University of Utah's phonetic department and is one of the best amateur actors in Salt Lake...
Unwillingly at home, chafing for news of the show was the Commandos' boss, gay but cutlass-keen Captain the Lord Louis Mountbatten, 41-year-old second cousin of King George, great-grandson of Queen Victoria. Lord Louis, who has had four ships shot out from under him in naval action, was recently made head of the Combined Operations Department, now reports only to the Prime Minister...
Oathy, whiskey-swigging Andrew Jackson (Brian Donlevy), seventh President of the U.S., turns up in Shale City, Colo, to pay a debt of gratitude to the great-grandson of the man who saved his life at the Battle of New Orleans. The great-grandson, William Holden, an honest young municipal bookkeeper, needs help. His politico bosses are about to jail him for discovering that they have rigged the city books to cover their thefts...
Died. Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt III, 68, head of the Vanderbilt clan, great-grandson of Founder "Commodore" Cornelius; of a cerebral hemorrhage; aboard the yacht Ambassadress; in the City Basin at Miami. Reserved, plodding, famed for his Vandyke beard and his yachts,* he was an inventor (30 devices for improving freight cars and locomotives), a soldier (Mexican border and World War I), financier (banks, railroads, traction companies). A graduate of Yale, where he was a slow but steady student, he started tinkering early in the shops of the Vanderbilt-controlled New York Central, made a point of visiting them periodically...
Died. Arthur Charles Wellesley, 65, Fifth Duke of Wellington, great-grandson of the "Iron Duke"; of pneumonia; in London. Among the special privileges he inherited from Waterloo's hero: the right to keep his hat on in the presence of the King of Spain...