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Bernice Layne Brown, 49, married California's Governor-elect Pat Brown in 1930, has four children, two grandchildren. Never intensely interested in politics, she hugged the background until Pat announced for the gubernatorial race. She did not approve of his running, much less the prospect of leaving their Forest Hill home in San Francisco for the Governor's mansion in Sacramento, but she jumped into the campaign with surprising verve, even left her sickbed (phlebitis) against doctors' orders to make the election-night rounds with him. Gifted with lively wit, Bernice Brown showed a great talent...
...Four of Founder Hartford's grandchildren and a great-granddaughter each own 10% of the voting stock. They are George Huntington Hartford II, theatrical producer and art fancier, of Manhattan; Mrs. John F. Bryce of Manhattan; Mrs. Charles Robertson of Huntington, L.I.; Mrs. Allan J. Mclntosh of Bedford Village, N.Y.; and Mrs. Henry G. Carpenter of Shelter Island, N.Y. Five other descendants each own 2% of the outstanding voting stock, and another 40% is in the John A. Hartford Foundation set up by brothers John and George Hartford (TIME...
Your Oct. 20 Milestone implied that William Frank Buckley founded a school in order to produce an "intellectual elite" from his grandchildren. My father's grandchildren are an intellectual elite by heritage. The school he founded will give them the education befitting such an elite...
...Both are great-great-grandchildren of German Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, husband and consort of Queen Victoria. Victoria herself was a descendant of the Hanover Georges. Elizabeth's grandmother, the late Queen Mary, was the daughter of the German Duke of Teck. Philip's maternal grandfather was German Prince Louis of Battenberg, who Anglicized his name to Mountbatten...
...right-wing capitalist, onetime (1908-n) lawyer for Mexican oil firms, who struck it rich with his own fields, bitterly anti-progressive-education theorist, who last year (TIME, March 4, 1957) founded a school on his Sharon, Conn, estate, to produce an intellectual elite (mostly his own grandchildren) who would be safeguarded from "the blight of liberalism and Communism"; in Manhattan...