Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...give MacDonald an honorable discharge when he requested it. But neither the captain nor his father-in-law, Alfred Kassab, was satisfied. Kassab has mounted a petition campaign to members of Congress and others to prompt a new effort to find the intruders he believes killed his daughter and grandchildren. "From now on," says MacDonald, "I'll be thought of as the man who got away with murder." Perhaps not. Responding to a variety of accusations about the case, the Army has said that it will at last investigate the manner in which the prosecution and the investigators handled...
...annual Christmas party for children at his mansion in Surrey, England. The moppets, including 21 boys and girls from a Reading orphanage, played games organized by a professional entertainer, and so delighted their host that they more than made up for the fact that none of his 14 grandchildren were present...
...friends (70 or so), and, to be sure, plenty of drinking. The husband and wife, Nathaniel and Lillian Aaronson, are grayer now, slightly heavier now, retired now. They have different friends-retirement friends who are their neighbors on Collins Avenue in Miami Beach. And they have children and grandchildren...
...Aaronsons' two children, my mother and my aunt, had arrived a day earlier, to help make the "arrangements." Now came the others. Around lunchtime of the big day, I arrived, one of the two grandchildren (out of five) who were able to come. After checking into my hotel room down the Avenue, I went right to my grandparents' apartment with my mother, knowing that my grandparents needed time to take a nap but also knowing that my grandparents, like the family they have created, are not all that good at containing themselves. I was not to be disappointed...
...agile wit working when his Navy Crusader was hit. He survived, and Patty got her first letter last February, 30 months after he went down. Since then, there have been six others; in a recent letter, he spent one of his precious six lines talking about the grandchildren he was going to have. Patty's literary criticism: "He was probably just horny." She has sent him letters and packages; one contained a gift that brings a rare laugh from her, and may have been her response to his musing about grandchildren: some scandalous, yellow-striped underwear...