Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spend more time studying music and art ("and I don't just mean appreciation") and working with woods and metals in shops. Bill Saltonstall, a handy man himself, is tall (6 ft. 3 in.), lean and gangling, with the same ski-run jaw and long nose as his cousin, Senator Leverett Saltonstall. At Harvard, Bill won letters in football, crew and hockey, and still helps coach the Exeter hockey...
...Such improvements have preoccupied the Strachey clan before. John's eminent cousin, the late Historian Lytton Strachey, wrote of Elizabethan Sir John Harington: "The gay young man looked about for new worlds to conquer. . . . Suddenly inspired, he invented the water-closet...
Married. Captain the Hon. Andrew Charles Victor Elphinstone, 28, first cousin of Britain's Princess Elizabeth, former aide-de-camp to the Viceroy of India; and the Hon. Jean Frances Gibbs, 26, Princess Elizabeth's lady-in-waiting, widow of a captain killed at Nijmegen in 1944; he for the first time, she for the second; in London. The royal family attended the wedding en masse, Princess Elizabeth as a bridesmaid...
...With You." One night in France, Joe Patterson and his cousin, both A.E.F. officers, sat down on a farmyard dunghill for a heart-to-heart chat...
Where or why Patterson got his uncanny touch, he himself never knew. Like Cousin Bertie, he was born (in Chicago, Jan. 6, 1879) with a silver spoon in his mouth. After Groton, like his cousin, he went to Yale. A year before his graduation, he traipsed off to China to run messages for correspondents covering the Boxer Rebellion. His father, Robert W. Patterson, was Joseph Medill's crown prince on the Tribune, and gave young Joe his first $15-a-week job. Impatient with the plodding Tribune and full of admiration for Hearst, he quit in disgust...