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At the mention of the Democratic party the members of this group see a montage of ward heelers and ward bosses, cigars in mouths, poker hands on the table. For when Case, Rockefeller, Scranton, and Lindsay entered politics, the Democratic party in the northeast--despite its noble patriarch Franklin Roosevelt...
She has been a divorcee herself a couple of times. Her first husband was Freddie Cammann, Harvard '51, descendant of Albert Gallatin, fourth Secretary of the Treasury. Since Elizabeth was only an actor's daughter, she knocked Freddie out of the Social Register when she married him in...
Estates & Brownstones. When it was over, the two sides spoke only through counsel. Dr. Murphy's lawyer said that "the decision completely vindicates all his acts to date." If the Murphy children never live with the easy spaciousness the Rockefellers can command, they are scarcely condemned to squalor. Dr...
Sir: Senator Goldwater is a direct lineal descendant of the great Puritan preacher Roger Williams, who founded the colony of Rhode Island. There are remarkable parallels in the careers of the two men. though three centuries separate them. Individual freedom is the primary concern of both their lives. Williams wrote...
Died. John Adams, 89, patriarch of the Massachusetts Adamses, a descendant of Presidents John and John Quincy and nephew of Historian Henry, himself a longtime president of the Massachusetts Historical Society who in 1954 first opened for public view the Adams family papers, a priceless collection of handwritten books, diaries...