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...RUFUS R. PEEPLES
...through Churchill's female ancestry and announced happily that Churchill was of blood royal, through Henry VII, and therefore a descendant of Charlemagne, Alfred the Great and William the Conqueror. Parliament itself bustled over preparations for the unprecedented ceremony this week in the great hall which King William Rufus began in 1097. There Churchill will be presented with an ornate memorial volume containing the signatures of all members of the House of Commons (except those of about ten sulky Socialists). Just when national emotions were reaching the sentimental pitch Britons normally reserve for royalty and animals, the irrepressible...
...tercentenary has already produced two readable histories of U.S. Jewry: Oscar Hand-lin's Adventure in Freedom (McGraw-Hill; $3.75) and Rufus Learsi's The Jews in America (World...
Princeton University Charles Rufus Morey..... Litt.D...
...also symptomatic of the revolution that has taken place in the American Machine & Foundry Co. Formed in 1900 as the cigarette machine-making subsidiary of James Duke's tobacco trust, A.M.F. became an independent firm after the trust was broken up in 1911. Under the presidency of Rufus Lenoir Patterson, who had been an American Tobacco Co. vice president, A.M.F. developed the first cigarmaking machine. With a patent monopoly in the field, A.M.F. was able to charge the entire cost of the machine (about $4,800) upon installation, then collect a royalty of $1 for every 1,000 cigars...