Word: father-in-law
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...instinct, he started at the top of his adopted profession. In 1940 he married Katharine Meyer, 22, news-minded daughter of the liberal Post's multimillionaire publisher. At war's end he joined the paper as associate pub lisher; within six months he took over from Father-in-Law Eugene Meyer...
...Guidance Exhibit, is a magnetized doll-house ($15) raised on stilts and inhabited by a family of lifelike dolls. Any bright little girl can move the dolls by manipulating a magnetic wand underneath the floor. "It's a new concept," explained Exhibit Director Mrs. Janet Freud (whose father-in-law claims kinship to Sigmund). "Now the child can control Mama and Papa. The mother can go to the sink or she can iron at the ironing board. The mouse goes down his mousehole, the dog into his doghouse. The cat chases the mouse, and the girl can carry...
...bright-eyed kids (Robert Sargent III, 9; Maria, 7; and Timothy, 3). Shriver got deeply involved in civic affairs-as a good Kennedy in-law would-including five years on the Chicago board of education. He resigned from the Merchandise Mart, got a generous separation settlement from his father-in-law, took his Peace Corps position for a dollar a year...
...Russian press had indeed been digging into economic stories, he said, but without enough analysis or concrete suggestions for improving the system. After all, he reminded his readers, they had a perfect journalistic model to copy: father-in-law's notes on farm specialization in Byelorussia...
Died. Daniel Joseph Mahoney. 73. craggy, quick-tongued publisher of the Miami News, who started his newspaper career in Ohio, then went to Florida, where in 1923 he had bought the News for his father-in-law, Newspaper Owner James M. Cox, and proceeded to make life uncomfortable for Miami's race-track racketeers and expose the city's corrupt "termite administration'' in 1938 (for which the News won a Pulitzer Prize); of injuries suffered in the explosion of an anesthetic (cyclopropane) during an operation for lung cancer; in Manhattan...