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136 & 2455. Strangely enough, the man who created all the noise was neither lawyer, nor governor, nor humanitarian, but the criminal himself. Self-styled descendant of famed Poet John Greenleaf Whittier, Caryl Chessman was the son of an unstable Hollywood movie-studio worker.
Brazil's Oct. 3 presidential election, the most important political event of the year in Latin America, will pit a stone-spined old soldier with a leftwing, nationalist program against a fiery-eyed spellbinder whose platform is austere conservatism. One afternoon last week the old soldier, Field Marshal Henrique...
Under Cornell's charter, the eldest lineal descendant of the original Ezra must always sit on the school's 49-member board. Millionaire Ezra Cornell, a onetime carpenter who helped put together Western Union Telegraph, launched the land-grant college by giving it $500,000 and his 300...
Japan's Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi is a descendant of the swaggering but practical men of Choshu. Less than a century ago his clansmen enthusiastically followed the Emperor's orders by opening fire on all foreign ships passing through Shimonoseki Strait, the narrow western entrance to the lovely...
Constitutionally, the group, which is a descendant of the Students for Rockefeller Club, is limited to activity in the New Hampshire primary, but it has the option to reorganize on a more formal basis later. The immediate problem, Scotch said, is to recruit members and raise money to supplement the...