Word: father-in-law
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...wife and children dwindle as one spare-time business venture after another flopped. Result: Grant took to drink, in time resigned* his captaincy in the ill-paid Army, which was then losing West Point-trained officers in droves.† Once U.S. Grant, civilian, rejoined his wife on his father-in-law's plantation, he quickly sobered...
...persuasive Albert Saitz, 37, as perhaps the best shoe salesman in the U.S. But three years ago, when he was treasurer and chief operating executive of Boston's Fleetwood Athletic Shoe, Inc., Salesman Saitz came a cropper. Fleetwood, which had been financed largely by Saitz's father-in-law, went bust. Saitz insists that he got out of the company while his in-law paid off the creditors at 37½? on the dollar and borrowed more, including $35,000 on the property, from Boston's Pilgrim Trust. Eventually the company closed down...
...receive the annual Missouri Honor Award for "Distinguished Service in Journalism." Next week Publisher Sulzberger will go to Washington, where President Truman will help dedicate the first of a 52-volume series, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson* to the late, great Adolph Simon Ochs, Sulzberger's father-in-law and father (1896-1935) of the modern New York Times. Sulzberger himself suggested the inscription: "Dedicated to the memory of Adolph S. Ochs . . . who by the example of a responsible press enlarged and fortified the Jeffersonian concept of a free press...
Before long, Sulzberger and Iphigene Ochs were in love. When Sulzberger married her in 1917, Ochs was not his boss; Sulzberger was a second lieutenant in the Army. But Father-in-law Ochs stipulated that as soon as he was discharged he must join the Times, and in 1918 he did. Ochs gave him an office, a secretary, a title (assistant treasurer), and nothing to do. Says Sulzberger: "I didn't even know enough to ask questions. I just looked...
...superb technique enables her to be effortless yet constantly interesting. And her emotional capacity is vast when she is called upon to use it. Of her supporting east, Robert Fletcher is outstanding as her self-dramatizing, self-deceptive husband; Thayer David is very amusing as her testy father-in-law. Jerry Kilty as the moralizer and Albert Marre as an early version of a psychiatrist also performed well...