Word: father-in-law
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Memoirs & Habits. Of some 1,000 living ex-Congressmen, a quorum is engaged, in Washington and in their home states, in the practice of law. Former Senator Joseph O'Mahoney represents Owen Lattimore, among other clients. Millard Tydings has a partnership with his father-in-law, onetime Ambassador Joseph Davies. Bennett Champ Clark and John Danaher, both former Senators, are judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals. One-third of the Supreme Court-Justices Hugo Black, Harold Burton and Sherman Minton-are former Senators...
Married. Diane Disney, 20, junior at the University of Southern California, elder daughter of Hollywood Producer Walt (Living Desert) Disney; and Ronald William Miller, 21, onetime U.S.C. varsity left end, now employed by his father-in-law; in a quiet church ceremony; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...left to think, and to give final shape to his budget in deepest secrecy. Every day, like a queen ant fussed over by faithful workers, Rab was closeted in his Treasury office. Evenings he worked until past midnight in his study, hung with Impressionist paintings from his father-in-law's collection...
...president and Meyer's son-in-law, got a mysterious phone call from a Trib vice president, who said guardedly: "There's a point to our meeting. It's brand-new to me." Phil Graham went out hastily to the airport to meet his father-in-law, returning from a Jamaica vacation, immediately started a series of meetings to buy the paper. Meyer insisted from the beginning that the negotiations be kept a complete secret and that there be no haggling over the price. He offered $8,500,000 (the price McCormick paid for it plus...
...look for the missing corpse, discovers that the body was robbed and buried by a passing gypsy. His daughter's new suitor, a U.S. patent lawyer (Sam Wanamaker), gets idealistically involved in the case and, in clearing the gypsy of murder, relentlessly involves his future father-in-law in the crime. What is good about the film is the full-bodied characterization of the killer as a man willing to compromise -but only up to a certain point-to save his own life. Its chief surprise is an ending calculated to stun moviegoers accustomed to Hollywood...