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Ordained a minister in the old Congregational Church of Salem, Conn, was Brewster Bingham, fifth son of onetime (1924-33) U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham, grandson of Hiram Bingham (1831-1908), missionary to Micronesia in the South Pacific, great-grandson of Hiram Bingham (1789-1869), missionary to the Sandwich Islands. Rev. Brewster Bingham, who during his Yale years startled New Haven housewives by begging food as religious discipline, jolted the Salem Ecclesiastical Council by declaring: "We could learn much from Karl Marx...
...East, editors scrabbled desperately through lean morgue folders for facts to show their readers just what calibre folk the Weyerhaeusers are. But in that vast quarter of the Union from St. Paul to Seattle the name needed no exposition. There the abduction of George, great-grandson of Frederick Weyerhaeuser, caused the same kind of sensation the East would feel if Miles, great-grandson of J. Pierpont Morgan, were snatched. For the Weyerhaeusers are the royal family of the U.S. lumber business. Their kingdom, sprawled from Wisconsin to Washington, is a broad 3,000 square miles of the country...
...Washington, D. C., Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian Jr., 19, opened an envelope from the War Department and read those words of Adjutant General James F. McKinley. Great was the pride of handsome, serious-minded Cadet-select Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian Jr., son of a West Pointer (1911) now attached to the War College, and only living great-grandson of one of the Military Academy's most famed graduates, Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson, Lieut.-General, Confederate States Army...
...husky youngster in knee breeches stepped bravely up to a steward. "My name is Wainwright," said he. "I'm a stowaway, sir, and I'd like some supper." No penniless adventurer was Carroll Livingston Wainwright Jr., 8, but a scion of Manhattan's socialite Livingstons, de Peysters, Wainwrights, great-grandson of Jay Gould, lineal descendant of Peter Stuyvesant. Month ago his mother, divorced from his father, fetched Carroll to Bermuda to live with her and her new husband, Sir Hector Macneal. Last week Carroll walked calmly up the gangplank of the Queen of Bermuda, caused a kidnapping scare in Hamilton...
Private Robert Edward Lee 4th, 10, great-grandson of the Confederate general, marched in an exhibition drill of the Knickerbocker Greys, a socialite Manhattan cadet corps...