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...unfeeling Red army marched into Saxony and put it out of business for good, though carefully carting its presses and files off to Moscow. The burden of keeping Britain's pedigrees straight thereafter fell squarely on the shoulders of Burke's newly appointed editor, Leslie Pine...
Last week, in preparation for Britain's coronation-the greatest genealogical event of United Press the postwar era-Editor Pine was hard at work on a new and more painstaking edition of Burke's Peerage, and Britain's proudest family trees were losing ancestors like autumn leaves. "Sir Bernard Burke," says Editor Pine, "was the greatest genealogist of his time, but he had a keen sense of romance." Where Editor Pine could find no justification for Founder Burke's romancing, he ruthlessly pruned...
Viscount Gage, who claims descent from a supporter of King John's in his war with the barons, had his pedigree lopped by 200 years. The best proved ancestor Pine could give Lady (Harriet Kathleen Grace) Thompson, whose family had for generations enjoyed descent from Odo, brother-in-law of William the Conqueror, was one Oliver Grace, a 16th century M.P. from Tipperary. "I'm challenging Burke's to show by what authority they make our family suffer this indignity," said the outraged Lady...
...nominate . . . Federal Judge David Andrew Pine. His courageous ruling, upheld by the Supreme Court, that President Truman's seizure of the steel mills was unconstitutional, restored constitutional government...
Member bodies of the metagalaxy, which includes our Milky Way, are drifting apart at a far slower rate than had been previously supposed, Harlow Shapley, Pine Professor of Practical Astronomy, announced yesterday...