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...family for nearly two millenniums requires an epic of biblical dimension. In another writer's hands such a project might seem an unholy wedding of hubris and chutzpah. But Halter is an extraordinary contributor to the post-Holocaust literature of lament. The author is the son, grandson and greatgrandson of printers and publishers in Warsaw. As a child, he was smuggled to safety through the sewers of the city's ghetto as the Germans closed in; after wandering in the Soviet Union, he found his way to France. "Somewhere along the line," he recalls, "I lost the sense of Jewish...
...Washington. Present also was Henry Adams Ickes of the U. S. Housing Authority, who claims no kinship to Harold at all. Doings: prayers, speeches, house-to-house gossiping, the unveiling of a stone marker honoring Nicholas Ickes, twice-married Revolutionary who fathered 20 children, founded the town in 1816. Greatgrandson Harold sent a letter of regrets...
Died. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 58, noted Virginia lawyer, greatgrandson of Thomas Jefferson; at Charlottesville, Va., of apoplexy...
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