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...long run, Clare Luce's major diplomatic achievement may well be the warm kinship she built up for herself and her nation with the Italian people-many of whom, at the beginning, were frankly skeptical about having a woman as U.S. ambassador. She learned to speak proficient Italian, was interviewed, photographed, talked about wherever she traveled. Her popularity rose to a peak when, ten days after a disastrous crash of an Italian airline plane (Linee Aeree Italiane) in New York, she calmly boarded an LAI plane for a flight home. An Italian public-opinion poll once reported that half...
Despite all it said about him, Lincoln enjoyed a lifelong kinship with the press...
...last week the magic kinship between Ike and the campaign crowds was hardly news, for the story could only be reported in round numbers, and the numbers rolled on from Peoria to Pittsburgh, from St. Paul to Portland. They rolled on just as they had in other years when the kinship was military, the numbers were millions, and the place names were London, Bizerte, Palermo, Salerno, Normandy and Bastogne. Probably no man in public life today has touched so many people in so many different ways as Dwight David Eisenhower. Yet, strangely, it is the sum total of Dwight Eisenhower...
...Democrat, who went to Yale (1933) and was graduated from Yale Law School, nevertheless underlines his kinship with the Italo-American, whose estimated 300,000 votes represent an attractive plum in a state where 30,000 pluralities are common. A former U.S. Representative, he served as State Treasurer for two and a half years under Governor Paul Dever, whose sopping brow inundated the nation's TV sets during his keynote speech four years ago at the Democratic National Convention. Furcolo, who has been criticized as "Dever's man" for his fair-haired position in the last Democratic Administration, lost...
Enough for kinship. The real question is "Which came first" and "Who is copying who?" Snap judgement might give the tree seniority. But one must not overlook the fact that a strong line of "beard" ancestry is that of Commander Whitehead, who may have fallen on ignoble days, but whose blood, nonetheless, flows back through the history of England. And England, as everybody knows, traces its blood to the line of Danaus, whose daughters drifted onto that island many years ago. And Danaus, as most everybody knows, was one of the first inhabitants of that land now called Greece...