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...week of the campaign, Pearson made an uncharacteristically emotional appeal to the voters, as he surveyed the fragile state of Canadian unity. "I am not concerned with power for the sake of pomp or power," he said. "I want to do what I can to make sure that my grandchildren will live in a united Canadian nation, in a world of security and peace. There is so much, so much to be done. Give me your trust. God willing, I will not let you down...
...wife, Mary Livingstone, long a performer herself on his radio show and now the critic to whom he often turns for judgment of his TV shows. Their daughter Joan, twice divorced, lives near her parents in Beverly Hills. Jack often goes to visit his two grandchildren, alone...
Over a year after his death at the age of 71, the will of Charles E. Wilson, General Motors president and onetime U.S. Defense Secretary, was finally admitted to probate in Pontiac, Mich. To his wife, six children and 17 grandchildren "Engine Charlie" left an estate...
...exchange for a softer policy on travel across the Wall, the Communists were demanding huge money credits from Bonn. A woman in the American sector said wanly, "Nobody here is hoping any more. My daughter and grandchildren are in East Berlin, only five minutes' walk from here. But I haven't been able to speak to them since September 1961." Though the reunion of families is banned. West Berliners did have some mild cause for rejoicing. A year ago, the Communists were talking noisily of an imminent separate peace treaty with the Soviet Union, with its implied threat...
...order to learn to speak properly. He was soon the friend and protege of John Barrymore. He married Cecil B. DeMille's daughter, but proudly refused to work for his father-in-law and made it on his own at a different studio, meanwhile giving DeMille four grandchildren...