Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Chauncey McCormick, 69, millionaire grandson of William S. McCormick, one of the founders of the McCormick Reaper Co., and cousin of Publisher Robert R. McCormick (the Chicago Tribune); since 1944 president of the influential Art Institute of Chicago; of a heart ailment; in Bar Harbor...
...social outlook, Nigel recalls Peck's Bad Boy, while in some of his insights about adults, he might be a distant cousin of J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. As created by British Humorist Geoffrey Willans and Cartoonist Ronald Searle, Molesworth could scarcely be more British, but Americans will still find him highly amusing, for the Boys' International cuts across all frontiers...
...hands joined to practice the mambo and the rumba, with Frederika easily carrying away top dancing honors. While the youngsters gulped gallons of Coca-Cola, their elders forsook champagne in favor of solider Scotch. At the end of one hilarious evening, some of the more enthusiastic princelings tossed their cousin Christian of Hanover into the ship's swimming pool fully clad, then all jumped in themselves. After that, Frederika ordered the pool emptied each night...
...practices the same brand of personal journalism that her irascible and admiring cousin Bert carries to an extreme, although she disagrees with him on almost every political issue. Most important of all, she has a touch of the journalistic genius of her late father, Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, the nonconformist millionaire, who founded the New York Daily News, made it the biggest and one of the best-edited papers in the U.S., and became the father of tabloid journalism in America...
...Dubucq de Rivery (1763-1817), cousin of Napoleon's Empress Josephine, had passivity thrust upon her. Abducted by Corsairs while en route home to Martinique from a convent in Nantes, Aimée was given as a present to Turkish Sultan Abd ül Hamid I, who popped her into his harem. At first, convent-bred Aimée violently resisted a fate worse than death, but at last came to agree with the Arab maxim: "Woman succeeds where man fails, for woman knows when to yield." Aimée became the Sultan's favorite, and lived...