Word: father-in-law
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...competence under fire. Now, with only about 10 days left of his active-duty tour as an Airman First Class, Patrick Nugent landed in Austin, Texas, to an enthusiastic greeting from Wife Luci and about 100 friends and relatives, including Lyndon Baines Johnson. "Marvelous, marvelous, marvelous," the proud father-in-law repeated, and occasionally prompted Grandson Lyn, almost 2, into a snappy salute. Said Lynda Bird: "I'm just so glad we have one of our boys home." Her boy, Marine Major Charles Robb, is due back late this month...
...spurning an offer of $18,000 a year from a Chicago food-packing firm, he returned to M.S.U. as his alma mater's $4,500-a-year business manager. He chose wisely. By 1941, he had married the president's daughter and succeeded his father-in-law in the front office...
...whom he came." No one had much to say about his political career, though Toastmaster Art Linkletter, an old friend, observed: "I've known him since he was a young Congressman, and now look at him today. He's General Eisenhower's grandson's father-in-law...
...Jory plays Osborne's violent love story straight. He seems a trifle bored with Osborne's speechy psychological explorations of the Porter's past, and he has schopped out the character of Colonel Redfern, apparently calculating that the scene which develops parallels between Jimmy Porter and his doddering father-in-law stifles the play's dramatic progression...
Like any proud father-in-law, L.B.J. was telling war stories about his two boys in Viet Nam. It seems that Airman First Class Pat Nugent, with a supply outfit, has volunteered for so many extra combat-supply missions he has logged more than his share of flights and has been temporarily grounded. Marine Captain Charles Robb, just reassigned to a staff job after commanding a rifle company for five months, has become a cool customer under enemy fire. One day, explained the President, Chuck was taking a shower when he heard the whistle of an incoming round. He listened...