Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the first group of freshmen was elected to the paper in February, 1901, Roosevelt was not among them. It was not until the end of April that he got the story which insured his election. He saw in the Boston papers that his cousin, vice-president Theodore Roosevelt '80, was in Cambridge visiting Professor Lowell, so he and another cousin called T.R. up and asked to see him. The vice-president said he was going to lecture in Lowell's Gov 1 course in Sanders the next morning. He would be glad to see them afterward. F.D.R. raced...
...attempted to discourage him. On these occasions, T. R. would be plunged into despair. Pringle reports that one night during the first winter of the courtship an alarmed classmate telegraphed to New York that Roosevelt was somewhere in the woods near Cambridge and refused to come home. A close cousin, who hurried up, managed somehow to soothe him; and soon his confidence returned...
Died. Prince George of Greece, 88, handlebar-mustached uncle of King Paul of Greece and Britain's Prince Philip, a onetime vice admiral who won fame in 1891 when he disarmed a would-be assassin of his cousin, Russia's Grand Duke Nicholas (later Czar Nicholas II); after long illness; in Saint-Cloud, France...
...Alex Goulandris, second cousin to Basil Goulandris whose $297,000 for Gauguin's Still Life with Apples set a new high (TIME, June 24), stepped into the ranks of top Greek buyers by purchasing a Matisse for $25,000, Bonnard's Still Life with Cat (appraised at $50,000) for $70,000, and Gauguin's Tahitian scene, Man Taporo...
Monica Baldwin is an ex-nun. The cousin of England's onetime Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, she took the veil of a Roman Catholic contemplative order in 1914, left it with a papal rescript in 1941 when she finally realized that she "was no more fitted to be a nun than to be an acrobat." After 28 years behind cloister walls, she was almost equally unfitted not to be a nun. Her bestselling first book. I Leap Over the Wall (TIME, Jan. 30, 1950), had a certain Rip van Winkle-ish appeal: it drew the portrait of a woman...