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Jack's act was tough to follow, but Michigan Governor George Romney more than managed. Mormon Romney mused that he had 231 first cousins, thanks partly to a forebear who had four wives. Just imagine the situation in Washington today if the Catholics had allowed bigamy, chuckled Republican Romney. "And Kennedy thinks he has trouble finding jobs for his relatives...
...prominent as their long noses and square jaws. They started being Boston Brahmins in 1630, when Sir Richard, a former lord mayor of London, arrived on the ship Arbella and founded what is now the Boston suburb of Watertown. Also on the Arbella was the Rev. George Phillips, forebear of the founder of Exeter, which in 1796 graduated, along with Daniel Webster, its first Saltonstall, Leverett, ancestor of the present U.S. Senator...
Great-Great-Grandfather Oliver Vanderbilt helped found the mighty Bank of Manhattan; Grandfather Joseph joined Abner Doubleday in introducing baseball; and Cousin Cornelius manipulated his vast holdings in stocks and railroads to become one of America's richest early millionaires. But Amy's favorite forebear is Great-Great-Grandmother Vreedenburg, who staved off bands of Tory marauders singlehanded during the Revolutionary War, having plunged the vast sums of gold she had into her copious bosom...
...safely the precarious line between guesthood and sycophancy by balancing good fellowship with mordant truth telling. For an author who does not resort to burlesque, this is not an easy notion to bring off, but Author Calisher does it delightfully. She ticks off the guestly ability of each Minot forebear, and then gets down to the problem of the current Minot, a moneyless widow who, in an age when the great houses are closing, mortally fears that she will be reduced to taking a position as secretary to a grim old birdfancier...
...Strindberg is the forebear of O'Neill, Ibsen is the inspiration of Arthur Miller. Convinced that "a new production of the play on the tradition basis would truly bury Ibsen for good" Miller has made an adaptation of Enemy of the People that strips away much of the pedanty and Victorianism of the play. Yet the injection of the Miller touch and the attempt to up-date the speech and action undercuts some of the play's force and argumentative strength...