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...Distant kinsman of famed George Bancroft (History of the United States), first (1800- 1891) major U.S. historian...
Died. Alexey Nicholayevich Tolstoy, 62, long-haired, beret-wearing, best-selling Russian writer (Peter the Great, Darkness and Dawn), remote kinsman of the late great Leo Tolstoy; from a lung ailment; in Moscow. A Tsarist count, he renounced his title to become the Soviet's most enthusiastic propagandist and richest citizen (estimated fortune...
...Hanna illustrates pioneer house construction by telling the story of Ancestor Washington ("Wash") Hanna's log cabin in Waterloo, Iowa. He skips his chance, however, to draw from the story of his distant kinsman, "President-Marker" Marcus Alonso ("Mark") Hanna (groceries, coal & iron, traction, banking...
Chang was trained to be a soldier. For years he fought under his kinsman, the overlord of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin. Thereafter, in China's convulsive era of war lords, Chang Ching-hui traded his allegiance for whatever bowl of pottage smelled best at the time. In this respect he was only following the rule of most of the high-domed, mustachioed war lords...
...Dear Blue Hills. Daniel Boone was a kinsman ("a mighty poor provider," his wife said). Another Robertson founded Nashville. Others have carried the Twelve Mile Valley customs into the Texas Panhandle and Montana. But as rovers they are permanently homesick. There are old letters in the Robertson trunks as touching as a poem by Burns: "Oh, I long for a sight of the dear mountains. My mind wanders all the time back to lovely Keowee Valley. Oh, the dear cotton fields. Oh, the dear blue hills...