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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vital Statistics. Age: 46 (born March 24, 1902 over a general store in Owosso, Mich.) Ancestry: the only child of George Martin Dewey, publisher of the Owosso Times and later postmaster of Owosso;* grandson of George Martin Dewey, one of the founders of the G.O.P. in Michigan; a fifth cousin of Admiral George Dewey. Educated: Owosso grade and high schools, University of Michigan (1923), Columbia University Law School (1925). Married: in 1928, to Frances Eileen Hutt of Sapulpa, Okla., daughter of a railroad brakeman, a onetime singer in a road company of George White's Scandals. Children: Thomas...
...Alpha fraternity. In his senior year, he won third place in a national singing contest, received a music scholarship to the Chicago Musical College. He spent the following summer in Chicago, dividing his time between singing lessons and reading law in the offices of his mother's cousin...
...office noted that airmail letters to Italy increased forthwith 100%. Martin's hope, and the hope of Italo-Americans, was that these exhortations from the world's greatest internationale, the U.S., might turn the tide of international Communism-that letters from son to father, brother to brother, cousin to cousin, might help win needed votes in the all-important Italian election on April 18 (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...daughters of Julia Ward Howe (Battle Hymn of the Republic), civic leader and chronicler of Newport, R.I.; in Newport. Existing in a climate of literary and artistic success all her life, she gained recognition herself by writing the minor sagas of the people and places she knew well (My Cousin, F. Marion Crawford; This Was My Newport), won the 1917 Pulitzer Prize (with Sister Laura E. Richards) for Julia Ward Howe, a two-volume biography of her mother...
Brooks, whose father was also a member of the organization in his undergraduate days, believes he might be distantly related to Phillips Brooks, after whom the House was named. "Something like seventh cousin, twice removed," he says...