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...Majesty is the first Scotswoman in over eight centuries to marry an English King, the first since Henry I married Matilda in noo A.D. She is descended from Sir John Lyon, the adventurous Thane of Glamis who in 1376 won as his bride Princess Jean, daughter of King Robert II of Scotland. Shakespeare's tragedy of Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, goes back to an earlier legendary period, but tourists still visit the Queen's ancestral home Glamis (pronounced Glahms) Castle to see where "Macbeth did murder Duncan," King of Scotland...
...Seattle newsstands, in store windows, barroom mirrors, tobacco stalls, garage doors last week appeared posters announcing a memorial meeting in the Senator Auditorium for Thane Summers, 25, killed in May fighting with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade for the Leftist Army in Spain. The posters were signed by "Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade." Admission to the meeting...
Father of Seattle's late Thane Summers is Lane Summers, well-to-do, publicity-shunning maritime lawyer, whose prime clients include such companies as the Grace and Matson steamship lines, Union Pacific R.R. Co. Instead of pleasing him, the posters stirred him to anger. He publicly announced...
...Robert Thane was second son to a pious Abolitionist farmer in Indiana. His older brother went to the war and came back minus an arm. But Robert might have waited for the draft if his hero-brother had not stolen his girl from him. When that happened, he went off hoping for death at the first cannon's mouth. Long before he got into his first battle he learned that there was more to soldiering than stopping a bullet. A Creole camp-follower in Nashville did her share in dimming Diana's image. And in his first skirimish...
...beloved sister, was Mrs. Wyndham Lewis, wife of his close friend and almost like a mother to him. But when Lewis died Ben discovered a more than filial affection for Mary Anne, and it took him less than the traditional widow's year to overcome her scruples. Author Thane leaves him on the threshold of his career and on her doorstep, with the Premiership in the future and Mary Anne's answer just inside the door...