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...Presidential candidacies and six great-grandchildren behind, Norman Thomas is an exciting man who has lived hard and wants badly to share his life. Though he is conscious of the effects of age, few of his listeners ever are, and a second-grade teacher probably seldom gets the adoring attention he manages to command. Pointing a finger accusingly or tenderly, staring with his soul, he speaks with a voice that could develop only from the harried heckled experience of Socialist Party campaigns from 1928 through 1948. Chuckling he reminisces about the exploits of one after another of his "old friends...
...bequeathed one-third to his widow Clementine and the rest to his four children. The will did not represent the bulk of Churchill's wealth, derived from book royalties estimated at $3,000,000; that was in a trust, set up in 1946 for his children and grandchildren, and under Crown law exempt from death duties...
Churchill is survived by his wife, the former Clementine Hozier, whom he married in 1908, and by several children and grandchildren...
...ninth child, sixth son (her third caesarean); in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital. Weight: 8 lbs. The new addition fulfills Ethel's oft-expressed wish to have as many children as Bobby's parents had. It brings the number of Joe's and Rose's grandchildren...
...Social Security, older people have both the wherewithal to spend and the feeling of security that inspires spending. U.S. families headed by men 65 or older now have net assets averaging $30,718. They have become active, productive buyers of everything from retirement homes to baubles for the grandchildren, are purchasing expensive durable goods as if they had 50 years to live, and will undoubtedly step up their spending when the Medicare bill-which will probably be passed early this year-gives them a new measure of security. Young marrieds, too, believe that pensions and medical insurance will take care...