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Ancestry: Paternal grandfather was Adlai Ewing Stevenson, a staunch Democrat who became known as "the headsman" because he swept some 40,000 Republican postmasters off the payroll as First Assistant Postmaster General during Grover Cleveland's first term; was Vice President during Cleveland's second term. Maternal great-grandfather: Jesse W. Fell, an Illinois pioneer, a staunch Republican, close friend of Abraham Lincoln. Jesse Fell sponsored the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Father Lewis Green Stevenson, a Democrat, was Illinois' secretary of state...
...Winning Team (Warner) is a bleacher biography of baseball's late great Grover Cleveland Alexander (Ronald Reagan). Like The Pride of St. Louis (TIME, May 12), the movie life story of Dizzy Dean, The Winning Team dramatizes the ups & downs of Alexander's career in conventional and sometimes fanciful screen style. Alexander is depicted going from his telephone lineman's job to Midwest minor leagues in 1908, making a sensational major league debut with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1911 (28 won, 13 lost), and later becoming a pitching ace with the Chicago Cubs...
...Grover Cleveland was a bachelor when he went into office and was later married in the White House...
Schlesinger, along with Theodore C. Blegen of the University of Minnesota, Henry Steele Commanger of Columbia, and U.S. Archivist Wayne Grover, was first called in several months ago to discuss safe-guarding the presidential papers for posterity...
...traditions established by U.S. political history is that the party which elects a President also wins a majority in the Senate. Last exception to that rule was in 1884, when the voters sent Democrat Grover Cleveland to the White House in his first term and left the Senate with a Republican majority. There may well be another exception in 1952, if a Republican is elected President...