Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About that time Charles Brannan got a job as regional attorney (Montana, Wyoming and Colorado) for the Resettlement Administration. Brannan, the city boy, knew little or nothing about farming; he had only milked some cows and gathered a few eggs in summertime on a cousin's farm. But he traveled the droughtlands by day, traveled the textbook maze of farm economics by night, learning to talk the farmer's language, and the bureaucrat...
...Adams was summoned to Boston to help plead Massachusetts' case against the Stamp Act before the British governor. Three years later, on the advice of his jackanapes genius cousin, Sam Adams, who had the workingmen of Boston in his political pocket, John moved to the city. In short order he was the leading legal light in that litigious colony, and the legal brains of the native Whigs...
Married. Princess Kazuko, 20, daughter of Emperor Hirohito, and Toshimichi Takatsukasa, 26, $20-a-month museum clerk and a cousin of the Dowager Empress Sadako; in Tokyo, after a formal ceremony in which she gave up her imperial rank and privileges (the bridegroom's family was reduced to commoner status upon adoption of the 1947 Constitution...
George G. Wilson '52, cousin of former president Leonard V. Wilson '49, was elected to the top Skiing Club office last night. Other new executives are James A. Lawson '52, treasurer, and Fridtjot Lorentzen '53 from Oslo, Norway, secretary...
Married. King Phumiphon of Siam, 22, Boston-born, saxophone-tootling King of Siam; and Princess Sirikit Kitiyakara, 17, his distant royal cousin; in Bangkok (see PEOPLE...