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Last week the jurymen listened to the last argument, retired to ponder the long dim trail of the Wilson Stricklands, the conflicting claim of Allen Vince's clan...
...fourth son of one Sanjuro Matsuoka and a woman who at 90 still lives in the Yamaguchi countryside. The story goes that Yosuke Matsuoka's family is of the Choshu clan-one of the two daimiates, or fiefs, of western Japan (the other is Satsuma), which less than 20 years before his birth had led in the destruction of Japan's feudalistic shogunate, and which emerged dominant in the Japanese Army. Whatever the truth about this glowing connection, Mr. Matsuoka speaks of himself proudly as a Choshu...
Beneficiary of this shake-up was the Primo de Rivera clan, the royal family of the Falange. Falangist Arrese married a cousin of Founder José Antonio Primo de Rivera. But the big gainer was Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suòer, who as head of the Falange's Junta Politico, outranks Secretary General Arrese. Just how much Serrano and the Falange had gained was made clear in another decree removing the division of press and propaganda from the Ministry of Government and placing it in the hands of the Falange...
...primrose path by a seducer. One day, when she was 18, Bandit Cole Younger and five other horsemen rode up to her father's farmhouse in eastern Texas. A big man with steel-blue eyes and fine, curly hair, Cole Younger, with his brothers and the James clan, had staged the country's first bank robbery -in Liberty, Tex., in 1866. He read theology on the side...
...always been morbidly self-critical, agonized over almost every book, sometimes suffered a complete nervous collapse. Yet she came of a professional writing clan. Her father was Sir Leslie Stephen, editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. She was related to Thackeray and such scholarly dynasties as the Darwins, Maitlands, Symondses, Stracheys. James Russell Lowell was her godfather. She married into the Bloomsbury group, which included Critic Bell, Novelist E. M. Forster, Biographer Lytton Strachey, Economist John Maynard Keynes...