Word: father-in-law
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...society's second president, Alexander Graham Bell, who in 1898 succeeded his father-in-law Gardiner Greene Hubbard, set the tone for the enterprise by declaring, "The world and all that is in it is our theme." When Bell hired his future son-in-law, a schoolteacher named Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, 23, to run the magazine in 1899, the young man catered to snob appeal by soliciting "nominations for membership" instead of subscriptions. The device eventually created the largest nonselective society in the world. Grosvenor's grandson Gil now serves as president of the nonprofit society, which last year showed...
...Greco's "spirituality" struck Pacheco as mannered and distracting. He did not mention his ex-pupil in his book. But Pacheco was a dry, insipid painter, and Zurbaran's slightly awkward fierceness must have been disturbing to a man whose chief pride lay in being the father-in-law of Velasquez. Zurbaran would not master the sense of secular decorum, the discreet and far-reaching rhetorical power of Velasquez's much greater art. He did not try to, since he was mainly painting for monks, not connoisseurs. He and Velasquez studied together and were born within a year of each...
...week after the Moscow meeting, TIME's Washington bureau chief, Strobe Talbott, took a call from Sakharov's son-in-law Efrem Yankelevich, now a resident of Newton, Mass. Yankelevich told Talbott that his father-in-law had sent a copy of the private speeches. Sakharov, said Yankelevich, had requested that a way be found to publish their text. Talbott and State Department Correspondent David Aikman, both of whom read Russian, studied the material and recommended that TIME print the dissident's views. This week the magazine takes an exclusive look at those statements, Sakharov's most detailed examination...
Harvard's only female vice president, Jacqueline A. O'Neill has something in store for her husband (former Lt. Gov. Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr.) and her father-in-law (Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill): she's expecting a baby...
Boesky and his wife took pride in their controlling interest in the Beverly Hills Hotel, though it was won in a bitter family struggle. Boesky's father-in-law had bought the hotel in the early 1950s and left 48% ownership to each of his daughters, Seema and her sister Muriel Slatkin. Muriel and Husband Burton ran the hotel until 1980, when the Boeskys managed to buy the remaining 4% stake from another relative...