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...second cousin." A superwoman, health-food nut, and opera buff...
President Richard Nixon has more in common with grass-roots America than many people realize: he has a cousin on welfare. Philip Milhous, 55, whose father was the President's uncle, lost his small chain-saw business in Grass Valley, Calif., after he had a heart attack in 1966. Welfare and Social Security payments were not enough; his wife Anna, 47, has rheumatoid arthritis, and they needed someone to help keep house. The Milhouses turned to the California Rural League Assistance project, recently under attack by Governor Reagan for inadequate service to the poor. Within days of CRLA intervention...
...understands women?" asked President Richard Nixon of his cousin, Author Jessamyn West, who tells all in the February Good Housekeeping. Then the President went on to say what he does understand about his daughters. "Appearances are deceiving. Julie looks like the strong, outgoing one. Tricia looks fragile. The fact is, Julie is more easily hurt than Tricia." Pat Nixon agrees that appearances are deceiving. "Dick is the easiest man in the world to live with. Outside, he may seem very serious, even forbidding to some. But when he comes home to me and the girls, he comes whistling and joking...
...knew, of course, that so-and-so was the "bagman," a collector of graft and bribes for Mayor Frank Hague, whose machine Kenny served and then ousted. That somebody's indolent cousin had been put "on the pad" by some ward leader's exertions. That every year on "Rice Pudding Day" those lucky enough to receive city patronage or employment kicked back a certain percentage of their gains. That "the little guy" himself distributed work tickets early in the morning to men going to the docks for the shape-up. That, as a matter of course...
...Kinsolving, was a Virginia pastor and a spy for the Confederacy. His grandfather, Lucien Lee Kinsolving, was a missionary bishop in Brazil. His late father, Arthur B. Kinsolving II, was chaplain at West Point and, later, Bishop of Arizona. His great-uncle George was Bishop of Texas. A distant cousin, Charles J. Kinsolving III, is currently Bishop of New Mexico. Yet probably no Kinsolving has ever been heard by a wider audience-and certainly none has gone after an audience more flamboyantly-than acerbic, peripatetic Lester, an Episcopal pastor turned religion columnist, whose angry newspaper crusades reach more than...