Word: great-great-nephew
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Died. Thomas Horatio Nelson, fourth Earl Nelson, 89, great-great-nephew of the hero of Trafalgar; in Salisbury, England. In 1806 a grateful Parliament voted the Nelson family a ?5,000 annuity; in 1946 the Labor Government decided that the nation's debt had been paid: the annuity will stop with the death of Thomas' brother, Edward Agar Horatio...
Beecher. A great-great-nephew of Henry Ward Beecher is John Beecher, who last spring found himself so burned up about current doings that he had to let off his steam in a free-verse pamphlet. Privately printed, not copyrighted, and with no rights reserved, it is written in the great American tradition of plain speech, is fittingly* titled "And I Will Be Heard...
Died. Professor Edward Everett Hale, 69, author, great-great-nephew of Patriot Nathan Hale; of a heart attack; in Schenectadv...
John Gilbert Winant, onetime (1925-26) Governor of New Hampshire, bought for his private collection the famed Edgehill portrait of Thomas Jefferson, painted by Gilbert Stuart. He bought it from Francis Burton Harrison, great-great-nephew of Thomas Jefferson, onetime (1913-21) Governor General of the Philippine Islands, now resident of Scotland. Never until now has this portrait, by many , regarded as the finest ever made by famed Gilbert Stuart, valued at $100,000, belonged to a person in no way related to famed Thomas Jefferson...
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