Word: childlessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blatt, who currently holds elective office as Pennsylvania's state secretary of internal affairs. She seems to be running more against Goldwater than against Scott. She has been particularly effective in tarring Goldwater with a trigger-happy nuclear image. Noting that she has never married and is therefore childless, she says of Goldwater: "I don't want to trust the safety of my nieces and nephews or your sons and daughters and husbands to a man like that...
...quite what it once was, and she does have her quirks, such as keeping a Manhattan mansion vacant and boarded up on a $6,000,000 plot at Fifth Avenue and 61st Street. No matter. She is Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, niece of John D., childless widow of Munitions Heir Marcellus Hartley Dodge, and in doughtier days she played hostess to the world's largest one-day dog show (4,456 entries in 1939) at her 500-acre estate in Madison, N.J. Today, she mothers 40-odd pedigreed German shepherds, retrievers, bloodhounds, beagles and a poodle, and kennel costs-nothing...
When Mr. Justice Holmes ascended from the Massachusetts Supreme Court to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1902, he brought along his custom of each year picking a bright young clerk from Harvard Law School. Himself childless, he explained that his clerks gave him the fun of fatherhood without the pain, since his "sons" changed every year. Holmes's legal family became so popular that it soon grew into a sort of Rhodes scholarship of U.S. law. Clerking for the Supreme Court is now a launching pad for all kinds of later fame -be it heading the State Department (Dean...
Last Chill. What ended the marriage was Napoleon's belated discovery that he could father an heir. For years he had assumed, on the evidence of Josephine's two children by her first marriage, that he was responsible for the fact that his own marriage had been childless. In 1806, however, he became the father of an illegitimate son, and in 1809 his mistress of the moment, Polish Countess Maria Walewska, revealed that she was pregnant. Several months later, Bonaparte announced his decision to divorce Josephine for the good of the state. Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria gave...
Back to 1278. In retirement he enjoyed a second spectacular career, becoming, by a wide margin, Britain's most generous philanthropist. Childless and reportedly thwarted of ambitions toward a career in medicine, Nuffield lavished some $75 million on charities, mostly in medical grants. Oxford University, whose hallowed walls are close by Morris' Cowley plant, got $17.7 million for Nuffield College, which specializes in social studies, and Nuffield medical center. In return, it bestowed on him an honorary master of arts...