Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps hardest on the Prince was his obligation to provide his house with an heir, for he was not the marrying kind. He eventually chose his 20-year-old cousin, Donna Maria d'Avalos, a girl of "surprising beauty," and even more surprising reputation: her first husband had reportedly died from trying to appease her insatiable sexual appetite. In due course, she presented Don Carlo with two children, but Gesualdo lost interest in his wife, and she fixed hers on a handsome nobleman...
Mafia's decline dates from the Italian government's success six years ago in arranging the murder of famed Mafia Leader Salvatore Giuliano by his cousin Gaspare Pisciotta (TiME, July 17, 1950). thereby not only ridding Mafia of one of its most powerful leaders but also destroying that confidence in each other that was the Mafia's most compelling...
...Happy's boast: Mildred Chandler is Adlai's sixth cousin, once removed...
White Jade in Hong Kong. To most Seattleites, the man behind their "Bird in Art" show is perhaps the rarest bird of all: Millionaire Museum Director Richard E. Fuller, 59, Manhattan-born, Yale-educated cousin of Novelist J. P. Marquand. With his mother, the late Mrs. Margaret Fuller, Art Patron Fuller put up $300,000 in 1933 to build Seattle's hilltop museum. Fuller has served as president and full-time director ever since. In return, Seattle awarded him its first "Man of the Year" civic-service award...
...although he had resigned as a director upon becoming Premier, he and an organization called Zik Enterprises Ltd. still held 28,000 shares in it. A few months after the transfer of government funds, some of the bank's directors (who include Zik's father and cousin) quietly agreed to make Zik lifetime chairman of the board...