Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the Board. Born in Geneva while his parents were making the Grand Tour, Doug Dillon followed a pedigreed path: from Groton ('27) to Harvard ('31) with a B.A. to his father's Manhattan investment banking firm of Dillon, Read...
Their prepared texts studded with Abraham Lincoln quotations, Republican Cabinet members, Congressmen and lesser lights boarded planes out of Washington last week for a traditional political rite: the delivery across the land of some 5,000 speeches honoring the birthday (150th) of their party's father. But, to the outrage of Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn, the Democrats stole the Lincoln Day show by laying on the biggest celebration of them all, right there in Washington. Democratic leaders in both houses set up a solemn joint session to hear the U.S. Army band play patriotic tunes, the U.S. Coast...
...Formidable Quartet. Though he comes from a long line of reformers (his father was a top British civil servant in India), Butler fell in with the family tradition quite unintentionally. His rise to power in the Conservative Party was dogged by the memory of 1939, when, at the age of 36, it was his duty to defend the Munich disaster in the House of Commons (the Foreign Secretary, Halifax, was in the House of Lords). The formidable quartet of Tories who opposed Munich-Churchill, Eden, Macmillan and Lord Salisbury-never really made common cause with him. Prime Minister Churchill tucked...
...this uneasy situation, guests began arriving in Kobeyat for the wedding of a local maiden and her Syrian fiancé. The bridegroom's two brothers-a Maronite monk named Father Genadrios Mourani. 32, and Seminarian Jean Mourani. 23-arrived in nearby Tripoli with their cousin. Father Georges Mourani. 34. Hiring a taxi, the three Syrians set out in the rainswept dusk for Kobeyat, passing through a spectral countryside of deserted, barren hills. As they rounded a curve on the approach to the village, the night crackled with gunfire. Father Genadrios was killed in the first fusillade. The cabby stopped...
Calling to their assailants for mercy, Father Georges and his cousin edged up the slope, where four Moslems kept them covered with their guns, then marched them off in the direction of Jaafra. On the way, the two captives were robbed of their money by one of the assassins, and of their wristwatches by another. When a third searched them and found nothing. he said: "Did the others take your money and watches? That's all right then...