Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everyone cheered the news, and realizing that they would not, the Tory government shrewdly timed the announcement for the holiday season when members of the House of Commons were out of town. To the royal family, "Dickie" Mountbatten is a favorite blood relation (he is both Elizabeth's cousin and Philip's uncle); to Britain's political leaders, who keep advancing him, he is a diplomat-sailor with charm, foresight and savvy; to his fellow officers he is courageous and capable; to the newspaper-reading public he is part hero, part legend, handsome and dashing...
...band. His biographer, Oxford Don John Wheeler-Bennett, records his "agony of apprehension" lest he should become King. When the worst happened ("Led," wrote poor Bertie of himself, "like the proverbial 'sheep to the slaughter' "), and he was indeed King George VI, he said to his cousin: "Dickie, this is absolutely terrible . . .I'm only a Naval Officer, it's the only thing I know about...
...cousin, then Lord Louis Mountbatten, suggested soothingly that there was no more fitting preparation for the throne than British naval training. Cousin Dickie was right. Albert Frederick Arthur George had been virtually ignored by everyone, from his mother, Queen Mary, to his nurse; but his service in the Royal Navy (where he was known as "Johnson") helped to set him up for the onerous business of living in the shadow of his brother's personality. Far from having David's "youthful charm and buoyancy," George was "shy and hesitant" and had a severe stammer. All Bertie...
...Country Cousin. Morgan & Co. has left the elder Morgan's imperiousness far behind. It is a publicly held corporation, owned by 2,070 stockholders who saw their stock rise from $345 to $395 in the over-the-counter market when the merger news was announced (one share of Morgan for 4.4 of Morgan Guaranty). Under able Chairman Alexander, the bank has made no bones about its competitiveness, trains young men nicknamed "bird dogs" to go out and hunt for business. For the Guaranty Trust, one of the impelling reasons for the merger was to get Morgan's bright...
...Morgan partner in 1939. He became chairman in 1955, with a reputation for topflight banking and for building Morgan's staff. In line with Morgan's new look, Alexander does a lot of traveling, tells prospects: "When you decide to borrow money, do not forget your country cousin at 23 Wall...