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...Headsman." Meanwhile, Stevenson's paternal grandfather was busy campaigning against Lincoln. Grandfather Adlai Ewing Stevenson, who walked into Illinois beside a wagon in 1852, was also a lawyer, but an avid Democrat. As Grover Cleveland's First Assistant Postmaster General, he became known as "the headsman" when he swept some 40,000 Republican postmasters off the payroll. In Cleveland's second term, he was Vice President. Lewis Green Stevenson, his son, was Illinois' secretary of state in 1914-16. (Another relative in politics: Vice President Alben Barkley, whose grandmother was Grandfather Adlai's first cousin...
Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh declined with "deep regret" an invitation from New York's Official Greeter Grover Whalen to visit the city on their fall tour. Meanwhile, the duke was busy boning up on Canadian history and making speeches at home (see SCIENCE). He also found time to attend a London Variety Club luncheon at which he was given a life membership certificate (putting him on equal footing with Harry Truman) and hailed as "Brother Barker." As just plain "Papa," he joined his wife on the lawn of Clarence House, their London home, to give photographers...
Manhattan's official greeter Grover Whalen turned in expense accounts for two recent civic receptions. The tab for General Douglas MacArthur's welcome came to $23,467; the one for Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion...
...James Grover Thurber, Doctor of Humane Letters," intoned the president of Williams College, "cartoonist, playwright, foremost humorist of our day and nation, he has brought to a troubled America the priceless gift of laughter...
Home Life. James Grover Thurber was born in Columbus in 1894, second of the three children of Charles Leander and Mary Agnes Fisher Thurber. (Mrs. Thurber didn't like the "Leander," so her husband, a loyal Republican, changed it to "Lincoln.") Their other sons were William, a year older than Jim, and Robert, two years younger...