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...well had the late Maria Fletcher done, in fact, that last week her white half-sisters and white grandnieces were more than willing to acknowledge their mulatto kinfolk in order to win from the Illinois Appellate Court the right to contest the late Maria's will in the hope of cutting a black foster son out of the late Senator Turner's tidy fortune. Commenting on her family's privy past, Lucian's white Daughter Flavonia Fletcher Coffey cheerfully admitted: "Father was in a good many scrapes...
...Garner, 81, mother of John Nance Garner; of general toxic poisoning: at Detroit, Tex. Daughter of a frontiersman, born on the banks of Texas' Red River, she bore Son John Nance and six other children in a mud-chinked log cabin. She also raised five orphans of her kinfolk. Nominee Garner turned away from the deathbed before his mother died, saying he preferred to remember her as he had known...
...politics are many able young college-trained men. Not a few inherit their politics from famed kinfolk. Conspicuous is David Sinton Ingalls, 33, Yale 1920, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, grandnephew of the late William Howard Taft, who is now seeking to become Governor of Ohio. Robert Marion ("Bob") LaFollette, 37, fills his late father's seat in the Senate. He studied at the University of Wisconsin as did his brother Philip Fox LaFollette, 35, Governor of Wisconsin. Paul John Kvale, 36, who studied at the University of Chicago, Luther College and the University of Minnesota, succeeded...
Proud scores, proud hundreds of Bremen burghers trotted down with all their kinfolk to the mammoth docks at Bremerhaven last week to cheer themselves purple in the face. "Hoch der Bremen!" roared stout sires. Dimpling Frauleins echoed, "Hoch der Bremen!" Radio carried the massed cheering to remotest German hamlets. From stern Prussia to mellow Saxony the whole Fatherland throbbed and thrilled as croaking loud speakers announced that any moment now there would sail from Bremerhaven on her maiden voyage the giant S. S. Bremen-a supership built to wrest from Britain the trans-Atlantic speed record held for the past...
...TREES?Stark Young? Scribner ($2). When Critic Stark Young of the New Republic was a small boy, he lived (he now pretends) on a big, easygoing plantation near Memphis. It was called "Heaven Trees," a place of calm walks and lawns, fragrant with myrtle and syringa. His gentle Southern kinfolk were surrounded with their slaves, cottonfields and traditional propertied indolence, the men riding blooded horses and holding long argument over cold juleps; the ladies, pert and lovely to behold, keeping the large household continually open to visitors for a night, a week, a year...