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...TIME cannot reproduce his warm rich voice or the stark poetry of his songs So perhaps we are safe, and he will not become a superstar but will remain a folk singer among those who treasure his gifts Mrs. Adrian Asherman Cousin's Island...
...agreed to give the money from his anticipated Nobel Prize to his family. (The $30,000 prize was finally announced in 1922?for his photoelectric theory. Relativity, still not universally accepted among scientists, was only hinted at in the Nobel citation.) Shortly after the divorce, Einstein married his widowed cousin Elsa...
...good number apparently are not; the $40 bid is far above the market price of McGraw-Hill shares ($30 last week). Harold McGraw's cousin Donald, who was forced out of his posts as a company group president and director, but still owns 2.5% of the stock, said he was "annoyed" that the board did not at least negotiate with American Express...
...July 6, 1953 a young American stepped off the plane at Qaar-E-Shirim, Iran, and passed through customs. His name was Kermit Roosevelt '38, the grandson of Theodore Roosevelt '81 and the cousin of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04. The customs officer let him pass without hindrance unaware that Roosevelt had just received instructions from Allen Dulles, the new head of the CIA, to topple the regime of the Iranian nationalist Dr. Muhammed Mossadeq. The fledgeling CIA had taken considerable interest in Iran during the preceding years, as previously unpublished documents show. Alarmed by the continuing Soviet threat to Iran...
...there, I saw a mere 300 a day-lots of parking, no crush), it also seems certain that the green crossroads and its 600 souls can never lapse into pre-Carter life. The cause is not Jimmy or his mother or wife or his sad younger brother or Cousin Hugh, whose recent ragbag memoirs spill prematurely a lot of what seem to be real family beans. The beans, after all, are everyone's family beans, only easier to see: mothers-in-law, problem children, alcohol, a taste for money (as someone told me, "The Carters...