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...Knowland of California. His grandfather had come West from New York to dig for gold, instead found wealth in an empire of lumber, shipping, mining and banking interests. Billy's father, Joseph Russell Knowland ("J.R." to most of California and "Papoo" to his now-adult grandchildren), served in the state assembly, the state senate, and was elected five times to the U.S. House of Representatives. Defeated as the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1914, J.R. bought into the Oakland Tribune (1956 circ. 208,000), assumed complete control, and turned it into one of the state...
...education system," said he, "is a shambles. I have, for instance, four grandchildren in high school . . . Three of them are writing rather good theses and essays but are not corrected in spelling. They communicate; that's all that is necessary. The hell with spelling...
...downtown to the Criterion in Bar Harbor to a movie, e.g., The King and I. Every now and then, J.D.R. Jr. darts out on a sudden foray: one day he remarked to a visitor that he had just been out to buy 22 Bibles, "one for each of my grandchildren...
Family: In 1920 married Pattie Maie Leckie, a Senator's daughter. They have two sons, a daughter, four grandchildren...
Last week, shabbily resplendent in his increased glory and the same threadbare pajamas, Mohammed Mossadegh walked out of Teheran's Ghassar barracks a free man once more. No crowds were there to welcome him. But Mossy's wife, son and grandchildren were on hand to take the old man home. And when Mossy saw them, he wept...