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...could get equal enjoyment from shooting a charging rhino or writing an essay on Dante, from outwitting Manhattan's Tammany politicians or swapping opinions on Roman history with British scholar friends. It was also true that later generations, notably those raised under the administration of Teddy's cousin, Franklin Delano, could see Teddy, politically speaking, only in the perspective of successors like Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge. This was to see him very dimly indeed...
...Spanish side, the Sultan's representative is pliant, unventuresome, 43-year-old Caliph Sidi Muley Hassan ben el Mehed. cousin of the exiled sultan and nephew of the new. The Spanish have persuaded the caliph to condemn the French change of rulers, but he is also believed to have secretly telephoned his congratulations to the new. French-backed Sultan...
...completely overcome." Certainly the new queen was eminently qualified for her job. Marion McCormick, a grandmother in her 60s, is a third-generation Chicagoan, and one of the richest women in the U.S. She gives impeccable dinners, served on gold plate and fine Lowestoft china. She is a cousin by marriage of Bertie McCormick. She owns fabulous emeralds, pearls and old masters, presides over a luxurious Lake View Avenue apartment, a Wheaton suburban estate, a mansion at Seal Harbor, Me. and another in Miami. She is a generous benefactor of the Chicago Art Institute (her husband Chauncey is president...
...Farouk. Under normal circumstances, no foreign emissary would concern himself with such a purely domestic affair, but it happens that Tugay's wealthy wife Emine, whose holdings included a palace in Cairo, many acres of rich Egyptian land and a bankful of Egyptian pounds, is Farouk's cousin. Ambassador Tugay complained publicly that Egypt's highhanded action was illegal. The Egyptian government countered by declaring him persona non grata as ambassador...
Married. Gordon Evans Dean, 47, who retired last June after almost three years as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission to become an executive of Lehman Bros.. Manhattan investment bankers; and Mary Benton Gore, 33, daughter of a Washington real estate man and cousin of Tennessee's Senator Albert Gore; he for the second time (his first marriage ended in divorce in September), she for the first; in Potomac...