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...lighten the burden of such Empire-building philoprogenitiveness as the Naylors', William Pitt 150 years ago suggested that Parliament contribute to the support of large poor families. Nothing was done about it until 1942, when Sir William Beveridge's "Womb to Tomb" plan prodded a census-minded government to action. In 1945, a month before the Labor Party came to power, the family allowance plan became...
...King stepped ashore, a small cloud veiled the sun. George looked up nervously. There was delay while elaborate security preparations were completed (no flower-throwing, no rooftop rubbering). Then, while thousands cheered and cannon boomed 101-gun salutes, the King drove through the streets, laid a wreath on the tomb of Greece's Unknown Soldier, attended a Te Deum Mass...
...especially concerned over the exact location of Noah's cabin on the Ark. He comes down hard on such promotional notions as "miraculous cures" (highly profitable to the yellow press), and has fun with the thousands who earnestly believe that a curse lies upon those who excavated the tomb of Tutankhamen (Mystery-Writer Edgar Wallace once noted ominously "that the very day the tomb was opened a cobra ate the chief explorer's canary...
...admirers ranging in degree from the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) down. But once upon a time respectable people like the Henry Adamses considered it beneath their dignity to speak to him, and Henry James, who knew him, dismissed him as a "tenth-rate cad." Nowadays his tomb in a Paris cemetery is said to draw more pilgrims than Balzac's or Chopin's. His name is as certain of immortality as that of Adams, James or the Venerable Bede...
...Best Years. The week gave him other chances to be plain Harry Truman, the man who lived in Independence, Mo. before he lived in the White House. On Memorial Day. after placing a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, he slipped off for a family party on the presidential yacht Williamsburg. And at week's end he motored to Chestertown, Md. to receive another honorary LL.D. (his eighth) and to address the graduates of tiny, ancient Washington College...