Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...COUSIN RACHEL (348 pp.)-Daphne du Maurier-Doubleday...
High Marks. Howe was born in Waltham, Mass, to a family whose ancestors had been Americans for more than 200 years. U.S. Naval Hero Stephen Decatur was a collateral relative; Julia Ward Howe, who wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic, was a distant cousin. Howe's father was a carpenter who built small houses, one at a time. Howe went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, got high marks, and stayed on for a year as an instructor in engineering...
...snarled and snapped at a baby elephant which paced the sidewalk bearing a sign: "I like Ike." Inside, high & dry on the 15th floor of San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Hotel, visiting Republicans flocked through the enormous Taft-for-President suite. Genial Dave Ingalls, Bob Taft's cousin and chief strategist (TIME, Jan. 21), clucked over the guests and shooed them toward cocktails, Wisconsin cheese and steaming sausages. Influential G.O.P. men were ushered into an inner sanctum, urged to jump on the bandwagon while there was still time, and assured that Taft was a cinch...
...swept some 40,000 Republican postmasters off the payroll. In Cleveland's second term, he was Vice President. Lewis Green Stevenson, his son, was Illinois' secretary of state in 1914-16. (Another relative in politics: Vice President Alben Barkley, whose grandmother was Grandfather Adlai's first cousin.) Father Stevenson tried to warn his son Adlai away from politics. "Don't ever get mixed up in that dirty game," he said firmly...
...rocks, with a little sugar and water). After dinner, he often returns to his desk for several hours. The executive mansion is adequately staffed with servants, but none of them sleeps there. The only residents are Stevenson and one of his executive assistants, William McCormick Blair, wealthy Republican and cousin of the Chicago Tribune's Bertie McCormick. On the nights when Bill Blair goes to a movie, it is up to the governor to lock up and turn out the lights-which he does, before climbing to the lonely grandeur of his bedroom...