Word: father-in-law
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...cocky Gary Player. "I have dreamed of winning the Masters ever since I was a boy," he said, "and I was confident that I would." Player had never won an amateur tournament when he abruptly turned pro at 17. But under the careful eye of his future father-in-law, Johannesburg Club Professional Jock Verwey, he practiced religiously, eight hours a day, trimmed off excess weight with a diet of nuts, dried fruit and honey, built up muscle by lifting weights and doing 70 fingertip push-ups a day. From fellow South African Bobby Locke, Player picked up pointers...
...names on the ballot included those of a woman who was under the impression that Harry Truman was still President, a man who wanted to use the Texas shrimp fleet to invade Cuba, and Bing Crosby's father-in-law. Of the six serious candidates, at least two offered as their main credential their wholehearted support of Democrat John F. Kennedy. But when the voting ended last week for the U.S. Senate seat vacated this year by Lyndon Johnson, the result was a repudiation of the New Frontier. The top two, who will soon be matched in a runoff...
Phil Graham has been moving swiftly for most of his professional life. In 1946, then 31. he dropped a law career to become associate publisher of the Washington Post, then owned by Eugene Meyer, Graham's father-in-law. Within six months Graham was publisher; within two years he and his wife owned the voting stock of the Post (a gift from Eugene Meyer), and in 1954 he bought out the Times-Herald, the Post's morning rival. By 1956 he had acquired two television stations and had doubled the Post's circulation...
...Duck with Moxie. Jackie took pains to study and analyze each member of the Kennedy family. Once, in Palm Beach, she was 15 minutes late to lunch with her father-in-law. "That can be fatal with Joe when he's in one of his Emperor Augustus moods," says Investment Banker Charles Spalding, who was present. "So when she came in, he started to give her the needle, but she gave it right back. Old Joe has a lot of old-fashioned slang phrases, so Jackie told him: 'You ought to write a series of grandfather stories...
...when he helped write the memoirs of old friend Henry L. Stimson, for whom Bundy's father had worked in the War Department during World War II. Later he became the only Yaleman ever to serve as dean of arts and sciences at Harvard, was long best known in the Yard for his trenchant course on the U.S. in world politics. Bundy, a liberal Republican, admires the foreign policy views of his close friend (and father-in-law of Brother William Bundy), Democrat Dean Acheson. He edited a volume of Acheson's public papers, once noted that...