Word: godson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philip Alston Stone '62 is a native of Oxford, Mississippi and a godson of William Faulkner, which explains why No Place to Run concerns itself with derring-do and decadence in Dixie. The South is, of course, just about the best place in the world for an American writer to be born, and Stone has certainly wasted no time in cashing in his chips...
...years. After performing the last rites at the Führer's funeral pyre in beaten Berlin, Bormann disappeared. His wife died in the Italian Alps a year later. For all their anti-Christian indoctrination, seven of their children have become Roman Catholics. The eldest, Hitler's godson, is training to become a priest...
...canasta with the Queen, and by royal command enlivened many a gathering at Sandringham or Balmoral with his quick wit and boyish charm. He was, moreover, a securely married man who lived with his wife and two sons (the youngest of whom is the late King George's godson) in a "by grace and favor" cottage on the grounds of Windsor Castle. If the younger princess found him delightful, so too did her mother and her sister. Elizabeth, Margaret and Philip were frequent and informal guests at the Townsend cottage. Even after Townsend last year brought the breath...
Three excited youngsters, sons of Manhattan's millionaire Toy Manufacturer Louis Marx, arrived recently at the Fort Myer, Va. quarters of General Omar Bradley for a visit with their star-studded godfathers. Result: a medley of big names and a remarkable godfather-godson picture. The host posed in the background with the Air Force's Major General Emmett ("Rosey") O'Donnell. On a couch sat Dwight Eisenhower holding Spencer Bedell Marx, 3½. Under Secretary of State Lieut. General Walter Bedel! Smith held Emmett Dwight Marx, 2½, and squirming on the lap of General George Marshall...
...ladies of the cadi of Bagdad's harem want to prove that women are the equals of men-and that each is thus entitled to a gentleman of her own. Led by Harem Beauties Paulette Goddard and Gypsy Rose Lee and aided by the caliph's dashing godson (Richard Ney), who believes in limiting his affections to "one woman for all time," they strike a blow for Eastern feminism...