Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bostonian clan perhaps only partially maligned by the old quatrain in which "the Lowells talk only to the Cabots, and the Cabots talk only to God." The Lodge fortunes piled up in the clipper-ship days are now spread fairly thin among descendants, but when Cabot Lodge was a boy there was enough inherited money around to give life a serene comfort unmarred by any need to worry about making a living...
Lodge's father George, a poet† whom Theodore Roosevelt called a "genius" and Historian Henry Adams remembered as "the best and finest product of my time," died when Lodge was seven, and thereafter the boy was guided by his grandfather and namesake, the elegant and scholarly U.S. Senator (1893-1924) Henry Cabot Lodge Sr. Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, the elder Lodge was one of the most eminent and powerful Senators of his time. Growing up under his care, young Lodge absorbed his grandfather's fascination with politics-and his nationalist opinions...
...rest in the bitterness of his public excoriations of Israel. But fate appears to have played a last weird trick on the murdered Iraqi strongman. Out of Jerusalem last week came a strange story: Nuri Pasha's only survivor may be a 16-year-old Jewish boy now living in an Israeli border kibbutz...
...boy's mother, Nadia Maslia, told Israeli newsmen that she met Nuri's only son, Sabah, in the early '30s when her family of wealthy Jewish bankers in Baghdad often did business with the Pasha. Though Sabah, an Iraqi air force officer, was already married to an Egyptian heiress, he fell in love with Nadia and kept trysts with her in London and Lebanon. Finally he asked her to become, as Mohammedan custom allows, his second wife. They were married at Mosul in 1939, lived in Nuri's household in Baghdad, and fled with the rest...
Salzburg, where he watched his father serve as sacristan. The boy was fascinated by the flow of robes and the carefully poised stance of church dignitaries. At seven he tried to translate his impressions into clay figures, remembers: "I knew then I wanted to be a sculptor...