Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four heirs to the paper. But by last week, George Cameron was no longer the only owner's voice. His nephew, Charles Thieriot, 39, was taking a more active interest in the Chronicle as boss of the paper's TV station, and his younger brother, Ferdinand Peter Thieriot, 32, was on the job as a circulation executive. The biggest stockholder of all, Nan Tucker McEvoy, 33, George Cameron's niece (and wife of Reader's Digest Editor Dennis McEvoy), was also taking an interest in the Chronicle, where she has worked off & on as a reporter...
...strange animal that Explorer Vicente Yañez Pinzón brought home from the new world in 1500 astonished the Spanish court. Their Majesties Ferdinand and Isabella ran their royal fingers through the soft-furred pouch on the beast's belly and marveled at such a freak of nature. In that age of exaggerations, the little cat-sized creature grew into weird shapes in the minds of men. To the Venetian court reporter, Peter Martyr, it looked like a "monstrous beaste with a snowte lyke a foxe, a tayle lyke a marmasette, eares lyke a batte, handes lyke...
...REBEL PRINCE (347 pp.) - Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia - Regnery...
...head fantastically carved." The last German who ever wore king-gear, Kaiser Wilhelm II, took his Carlylean comeuppance in 1918. His heirs, as a result, have faced the necessity of sinking their roots in the radish patch of common humanity. In The Rebel Prince, his grandson, Prince Louis Ferdinand Victor Edward Albert Michael Hubert Hohenzollern ("Lulu" to the family), says it was a hard fight but he made...
...Washington's Union Station late last week rolled the presidential railroad car, the "Ferdinand Magellan." Accompanied by daughter Margaret, Harry Truman was off on his first major whistle-stop tour of the 1952 campaign, an 8,soo-mile trip which will carry him through 24 northern and western states...