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...mother, Russell Harrison; sister-in-law, Mrs. Edward Nixon; brother, Navy Lieut. Edward Nixon; uncle, Dr. Ernest Nixon; aunt, Mrs. Oscar Marshburn; uncle, Oscar Marshburn; sister-in-law, Mrs. Donald Nixon; brother, Donald Nixon; Pat Nixon's sister-in-law, Mrs. William Ryan; brother-in-law, Matthew Bender; brother-in-law, William Ryan. Seated from left: Mother Hannah Nixon, Daughters Julie and Patricia, Wife Pat. † His equally handsome younger brother, John Davis Lodge, now Ambassador to Spain, was for a brief time a leading man in films. His sister, the Baroness Edouard de Streel, lives in Brussels...
...like Flying Ebony." Another snake, as big as his thigh, strikes at him. The bottle drops and shatters on the radiator. Sobbing "Leave me alone. No more. No more," Peter collapses across the hotel bed on the bare breast of the nymphomaniacal redhead with whom he is sharing his bender...
...Harvard's Dean of Admissions Wilbur J. Bender, the hold-down headache is "grim, grimmer, grimmest." But he says it with a certain smile. In the past five years, Ivy League colleges have been able to raise their admission standards 50%. Reason: brighter and brighter applicants. Last year two-thirds of Princeton's applicants were deemed perfectly capable of Princeton work. But only one-third could be admitted, and Princeton skimmed the richest cream. Says Director of Admission C. William Edwards: "The bottom one-third of the applicants of ten years ago wouldn't even bother...
...well have been a tent. (No one is certain, but Ely was a rowdy tent town at the time, and at best the towheaded baby came into the world in a miner's shack.) William Ryan was a footloose Irishman who had met and married Kate Halberstadt Bender, a young widow with two children. Kate, who had emigrated from Germany as a ten-year-old girl, soon presented her husband with two sons, Bill and Tom. The youngest of their three children was formally baptized Thelma Catherine, but Will Ryan, mindful of the fact that she was born...
...fast-he kept putti"? on the gas instead of the brake, and couldn't figure out what he was doing wrong. We were all terribly frightened, but it was fun." When Pat was 13 her mother died, and Pat became the homemaker for her father and brothers. (The Bender children had grown up and moved away.) During the harvest, she worked in the fields with her family and the hired hands, then headed back to the kitchen to cook. "I learned fast," she remembers. "I'd bake a half-dozen pies at a time, two or three chickens...