Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Michael John Cudahy, 33, drafted Chicago packing heir, second cousin to ex-Ambassador John Cudahy; by his third wife, Marjorie, six months after their marriage; in Los Angeles...
Drive-In is the invention* of Richard Milton Hollingshead Jr., a vigorous fellow of 41 who thinks the U.S. was much happier in the days when most people couldn't read. His concern, Park-In Theatres, Inc., headed by Cousin Warren Willis Smith, is collecting 5% of all the Drive-In Theaters' weekly gross. Vice president in charge of manufacturing of R. M. Hollingshead Corp., world's largest makers of automotive polishes, enamels, brake fluids, etc., Hollingshead worked out the Drive-in Theater idea by asking himself in the early days of the late depression what luxuries...
...Heavy, surly-faced Grand Duke Vladimir, 23, who gets a large part of his exercise as pretender to the Romanov throne. A first cousin once removed of the late Tsar, he is the son of the late, sumptuously-mustached Grand Duke Cyril, who in 1924 proclaimed himself "Tsar of all the Russias" and died in 1938. Grand Duke Vladimir's mother was a German Princess of Saxe-Coburg. He was born in Finland, where his parents had fled to escape the Red terror, attended London University, is now supposedly in Paris, where he has long been considered an admirer...
Archduke Otto of Austria was sued for an accounting of Habsburg family funds by his hard-up fifth cousin, Archduke Leopold. >> "Death Valley" Scotty was ordered to turn over 22½% of his mining claims to his old friend and banker, Julian Gerard; but the judge doubted any gold would be found, and did not award Gerard any interest in his protégé's three-million-dollar desert castle. >> Historian Harry Elmer Barnes was dropped as a lecturer by Eastern Washington College of Education (Cheney, Wash.) because "during his early years Dr. Barnes was associated with certain...
...will Aluminum Co. operate these plants. They belong to a newcomer to aluminum called Kalunite, Inc. Kalunite is a corporate cousin of Western Cartridge Co.; both are controlled by Olin Corp., bossed by 80-year-old, physically feeble, mentally strong Franklin William Olin. Western Cartridge, reportedly the second-largest privately owned company in the U.S. (first: Ford), daily makes over a million shells at its sprawling East Alton, Ill. plant. Through Western Cartridge, munitions-man Olin also controls New Haven's famed Winchester Repeating Arms Co., likewise busy on defense orders...