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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mary Baker Eddy was in sight, as we gingerly rounded Halcyon Lake. Squatting close by the shore, her monument was everlastingly protected by tree and shrubs. On the right side, a lady-sized tablet bore a quotation of the Discoverer of Christian Science herself; on the left, a similar tablet, perhaps slightly larger, was inscribed with words of Christ. We immediately rejected any speculation as to who was buried under the latter tablet, on the ground that it would be sacrilegious...
...anthropologist, and he searched for a reason for it. After studying their diet, he decided that their euphoria is due to one of their favorite dishes: big beetles and their larvae, the size of small sausages. A lucky Pygmy may find as many as 100 larvae in a riddled tree trunk. He bakes them with hot stones in a hole in the ground (New England clambake technique), and when he has eaten his fill, he feels as contented as a Hollywood agent tranquilized with Miltown...
Enough for kinship. The real question is "Which came first" and "Who is copying who?" Snap judgement might give the tree seniority. But one must not overlook the fact that a strong line of "beard" ancestry is that of Commander Whitehead, who may have fallen on ignoble days, but whose blood, nonetheless, flows back through the history of England. And England, as everybody knows, traces its blood to the line of Danaus, whose daughters drifted onto that island many years ago. And Danaus, as most everybody knows, was one of the first inhabitants of that land now called Greece...
...Family Tree. Despite this setback the debutante did well (three corsages to wear on Easter Sunday), and she married "strong, assured, sophisticated" Lieut, (j.g.) Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., with whom she lived the life of a Navy wife from Peking to Pensacola. Alas, came the terrible time when Lieut. Spencer, who had begun to hit the bottle with naval thoroughness, locked her in the bathroom. Despite family pleas-"the Montague women do not get divorced"-Wallis felt it was time to set a precedent...
...Early Churchills is how Nobodies may become Somebodies if they have the right stuff in them. The very early Churchills were so obscure that Author Rowse dispatches five centuries of them in eight pages. One such was apparently a plain 12th century blacksmith, whose presence in the family tree the present Sir Winston has found "disquieting." The blacksmith's son married a widow a cut above him, and by dint of a few generations of such nimble marriages, the Churchills became gentry, landed but impoverished. The clan's private golden age began in the mid-17th century with...