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Ancestry: of German Mennonite stock; on the paternal side, the first Eisenhowers (who spelled it "Eisenhauer") settled in Pennsylvania between 1730 and 1740; the general's grandfather, Jacob Eisenhower, a leader of the River Brethren sect of Mennonites, moved his family to Kansas in 1878. On the maternal side, the general's forebears (named Stover or Stoewer) were also German immigrants who prospered in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley until the Civil War brought hardship and destruction...
...enough to strait-jacket Kirk Douglas with this type of worn-out Western. Warner Brothers errs even further by creating a nutty Druid-like sect of tree worshippers who sport Amish hats and stand around righteously in the path of falling redwoods. Californians are admittedly capable of almost anything, but this is just too much to take. Then, in the agonizingly protracted struggle between timbermen and believers, Douglas goes gooey and joins the Druids (who have given up their ethical principles and taken up arson...
...Pakistan, the Ismaili Moslem sect decided to give their spiritual leader, the Ago Khan, his weight in platinum on his 75th birthday next week. Platinic worth of his approximate 240 Ibs.: $300,000-$1,900,000 less than the 243½ Ibs. in diamonds...
European art strikes him as being too precious. "Here," he thinks, "we should create a more human art. . . A painter should paint for the million and not for a predetermined sect or level." Perhaps because he paints "for the million," Di has been accused of being a Communist. He denies it: "Political creeds stand between the artist and that which he wants to interpret. It is sufficient to be human...
Terming Truman's position "unfortunate," Mather concluded that the President has selected one religious sect in preference to all others, since no other church has been recognized with an ambassador...