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Archduke Franz Josef, natty, 38-year-old distant cousin of Otto, turned out to have been a "steerer" for Manhattan's swank Sherry-Netherland Hotel. Papers in a lawsuit (now settled) showed that the Archduke had his own rooms there at half price and earned a 5 to 10% commission on the rents paid by guests he brought in (one was Glandmaster Serge Voronoff) But the war boom in the hotel busines broke it all up. The Archduke got a job with a brokerage house, moved across the street to the Savoy-Plaza...
Royalty Ras Imru, Haile Selassie's first cousin and Ethiopia's hardest-fighting chieftain until the Italians captured him in 1936, headed home after nearly seven years' detention in Calabria. With him went his retinue of 16 (including a woman whose neck was tattooed blue...
Chapel Hill must nowadays often live without its little, bushy-browed President Frank Porter Graham, active in Washington as a member of WLB. Frank Graham is a cousin of former President of North Carolina Edward Kidder Graham. Frank Graham holds no Ph.D. But he has many an honorary doctorate and has taught history. An admirer once remarked: "If Frank Graham is a historian, then Kelly is a Chinaman. He makes history...
...hangar's shade. The rear underhatch opened, a ladder thrust down. Out climbed an immaculately groomed Briton in the semitropical khaki of a Royal Navy Admiral. A welcoming line of high-ranking Allied officers, flecked with gold braid and turbans, snapped to salute. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of the King-Emperor, ex-chief of the Commandos and now Allied Commander in Southeast Asia, briskly returned the salute. Down the line of officers he stepped gingerly, grasping each hand with a toothsome smile, letting each go with a look of tight-lipped determination...
Said Judge Learned Hand's majority opinion (Judge Augustus Hand - a cousin -concurring): "We conclude that the present bylaws of A.P. unlawfully restrict the admission of members; and that fur ther enforcement of them should be en joined." Judge Thomas Swan dissented...