Word: grandchildren
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...fiddle player," judged Association President Bob Brown after Byrd's performance. Actually, Byrd began his music career as a boy back in Stotesbury, W. Va., and began using the violin on the campaign trail to draw a crowd before his speeches. He now performs regularly for his six grandchildren. "When I have a lot of work to do, I take out the fiddle and get a real workout from it," he says. "It allows me to forget all the pressures...
Great events produce newspapers and magazines that people instinctively preserve for their historic import. But most Americans today who have set aside issues of the recent momentous weeks to relive the tumult with their children and grandchildren will, 50 years hence, confront what today's grandparent usually finds on a trip to the attic - crumbling, yellowed newspapers inexorably turning to dust. A few years ago an assistant professor of librarianship at the University of Washington named Richard Smith devised a simple formula for ensuring the survival of history-making newsprint. His innovation is ripe for use now. The recipe...
...children of John D. Jr. established the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, to which their father willed half his estate. The fund is the one philanthropy that they operate jointly. In 1972 it made nearly 300 grants totaling more than $11 million. Now John D. Jr.'s grandchildren, the Cousins, as the family calls them, are carrying the tradition into the fourth generation. With their parents, they have created the Rockefeller Family Fund, described by a staffer as a "swinging" philanthropy that supports projects in five areas: conservation, equal opportunity for women, institutional "responsiveness," the arts and public aesthetics, and education...
Last summer the Rhodes clan-John Rhodes, his wife Betty, their daughter, three sons and two grandchildren -gathered to enjoy the river in a different way: they floated through the Grand Canyon on a raft...
...this moving memorial to the victims of war reinforce the determination of all those who come here to build a living monument to those who died-a world of peace for their children and their grandchildren...