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Ironically, the great grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, and grand-nephew of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 will have to overcome his anonymity in the race for the Democratic nomination to be governnor of Massachusetts...
...best foot forward, ideologically-speaking. I hitched a ride with a quasi-legal import-export merchant to Nicaragua and then took an arms freighter to Cuba where I was able to register with the Comintern and buy some identification papers. I was now Rutger Gorbachev, long lost grand-nephew, twice removed, from the Soviet premier. I figured the pull might be useful later...
Anderson was born shortly before the end of World War I in Cincinnati, Ohio, but he considers himself a Yankee. He says he's not from a "very old Harvard family," but he is the grand-nephew of Nicholas Longworth Anderson of local bridge fame. After graduating from St. Paul's in New Hampshire he came to Harvard and got married after sophomore year--"which was considered shocking," Anderson adds. Anderson devoted his undergraduate career to rowing: "I did no work whatsoever, I rowed... I had fun rowing," admits the naturalized Easterner. Anderson's interest in nautical behavior took...
Great-grandson of the 26th U.S. President and grand-nephew of a former First Lady, third-year Harvard law student Mark Roosevelt '78 hopes to win a seat on the Boston City Council in next year's election...
...King and Spaulding law firm in Louisiana, is proud to have been the first to trip Spiro up. Besides the now-famous lies about turning down the Law Review and writing a thesis on Einstein, Lanier says Pavlovich made other, equally outrageous claims. Spiro said he was the great grand-nephew of Czar Nicholas of Russia, the nephew of a man who "owned most of lower Louisiana," and the godson of Leander Perez, a notoriously powerful and corrupt Plaquemines parish politician. Lanier began to get suspicious, but it was Spiro's statement that he was an avid scuba diver that...