Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since they were all related in one way or another, making the trip a family party, Cousin Frederika ordained that everything should be informal. Only 85-year-old Prince George of Greece (whose Bonaparte wife is one of France's leading psychoanalysts) was allowed to bring along a personal servant. Formal dress and court protocol were forbidden, and the seating arrangements for each day's meals were drawn democratically...
...jotted down neatly her adolescent story. Claudine at School (signed "Willy") appeared in 1900, sold 50,000 copies in the first year and is still selling in 1954. Almost as successful was the first sequel, in which Heroine Claudine "[receives her] first lessons in seduction, meets her perverted second cousin and marries his father...
Germany's Lufthansa, commercial cousin of Hitler's Luftwaffe, will soon be air borne again. Last week in Cologne, its board of directors held their first postwar meeting in a bomb-battered building. Since the surrender of 1945, Germans have been forbidden to own or operate aircraft, but the ban will soon be lifted. Lufthansa's aircraft (four U.S. Convairs and four Constellations) are due for early delivery, its prewar chief of operations is back as manager, and the pilots are in harness again. Buttressed by government subsidies, Lufthansa's aircraft will soon be taking...
...Last week Mrs. Nunan inherited a one-third interest in the $1,000,000 estate of a cousin...
Died. Charles Francis Adams (TIME, Nov. 4, 1946), 87, great-great-grandson of President John Adams, great-grandson of John Quincy, cousin of Henry, yachtsman and onetime Secretary of the Navy (1929-33); after long illness; in Boston. He became an ardent Hoover supporter, but as Navy Secretary bitterly opposed Hoover's reductions in naval appropriations. America's leading yachtsman, he skippered the Resolute to victory over the late Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV in the 1920 America's Cup races, at the age of 73 brought off an unparalleled sweep of U.S. yachting...