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Last week, in preparation for Britain's coronation-the greatest genealogical event of United Press the postwar era-Editor Pine was hard at work on a new and more painstaking edition of Burke's Peerage, and Britain's proudest family trees were losing ancestors like autumn leaves. "Sir Bernard Burke," says Editor Pine, "was the greatest genealogist of his time, but he had a keen sense of romance." Where Editor Pine could find no justification for Founder Burke's romancing, he ruthlessly pruned...
...weeks ago the Illinois State Parks Division temporarily closed down one of Springfield's proudest possessions, the two-story clapboard house in which Abraham Lincoln lived from 1844 to 1861. The time had come when the Lincoln house was to be rendered "authentic in every detail...
...even the proudest Southerner knew, post-graduate education in the South, particularly in professional fields, was in a sorry state. Florida had neither dental, medical nor veterinary schools; facilities in most other states were hopelessly inadequate. What could be done to bring the South...
...proudest possessions in Dayton's public library museum has been a rare portrait of Abraham Lincoln without his beard. A small, clearly drawn painting, it was by a local artist named Charles W. Nickum, who, so the story went, got Lincoln to pose for him one day on a swing through Ohio in the late 1850s. A committee of Dayton's citizens gave Artist Nickum's widow $1,000 for it in 1928, and the museum has swellingly displayed it for the edification of Lincoln fans ever since...
...host to the convention, Mayor Jordan took members to nearby Glendale, where members played on the 36-bell carillon of the Episcopal Sisters of the Transfiguration. His proudest moment came when his pupil, Sister Ruth Magdalene, a onetime missionary in China who has studied for only a year, put on the leather guards, pulled up her skirts a bit so that her feet could be freer for the heavy pedals, and rang out a pair of selections. Sister Ruth Magdalene was promptly voted into the guild...