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...this was just a sign that Daughter Alicia is a member in good standing of the Patterson-McCormick family, a clan of determined individualists. From her paper it has long been plain that she is no isolationist, but as she says: "Father and I are still very great friends." They do not attempt to reconcile their editorial difference. ("We just don't talk about it.") Meantime she goes on reviewing books for her father's Sunday News. ("It gives me a chance to get a lot of reading done that I wouldn't do otherwise...
...other potential stars are the Fisher brothers, Bill and Jack. Jack was an outstanding center and captain of the Andover football team, while Bill plays well at either tackle or guard. The arrival of these two brothers reunites the famous Fisher clan, which already has seen two of its members play football for the University and its oldest member act as Head Coach of the Varsity team
...adapted to Pennsylvania," he observed, "and should be cultivated." But Europe (where they are hard to grow) and America (where they grow easily) alike ignored the soybean until the Russo-Japanese War left Japan with a surplus of Manchurian beans to dump somewhere. In 1908 the fabulous banker-merchant clan of Mitsui shipped 2,000 tons to England, where cottonseed and linseed oils were momentarily scarce. Soybean oil proved a good substitute, and from then on both Europe and the U.S. imported increasing quantities...
...examples fits the history of the distinguished James clan. The founder was an immigrant who grew rich after the Revolution. His son Henry had depressions, suffered greatly, finally reached a religious philosophy. One of the grandchildren landed in the hospital with manic-depressive psychosis. Two others were a famed psychologist and a famed novelist. (William James suffered for years from severe depression...
...their children, and the husbands and unmarried brothers of these. . . . [Often] the camp is expanded to include female first cousins or even women more remotely related, together with their husbands and children. But in any event a basic rule is observed-the women in a camp belong to one clan. . . . When a man marries, he goes to his wife's camp, builds her a house, and moves in. Later on, if the two of them do not get along, a divorce is effected simply by the husband's . . . moving...