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Hoagland already owns a drug store and a restaurant, so he was able to turn full attention to the problem of afternoon seating for his wife, six children and--University Hall officials are really generous--his three grandchildren...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ralph P. Hoagland Finally Receives Degree; Began Task 35 Years Ago | 6/11/1953 | See Source »

...which he understood and enjoyed. "After all," he told a Senate committee, "I probably have one of the top jobs in the U.S." When he retired, which he was scheduled to do in 1955, a pleasant personal life awaited him. His six children (three sons, three daughters) and 14 grandchildren were almost all within easy reach of Longmeadow, the Wilson's big fieldstone home on Island Lake, near Detroit. Also, he anticipated more time for Windrow Farms, where he raises prizewinning Ayrshire cattle (whose vital statistics he always carried with him in a notebook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man from Detroit | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...Government's antitrust suit against 17 investment banking houses recessed for the summer last week, the 64 lawyers connected with the case totted up some vital statistics on themselves. Since the case went to trial in 1950 before Judge Harold Medina in Manhattan, seventeen children and three grandchildren have been born into the lawyers' families (all but three of them on the defense side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Home Life of a Lawyer | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...perspiration"? Who said: "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it"? A centenarian was asked how many grandchildren he had. He replied that if he divided them into groups of two, three, four, five or six, he always had one left over, but that when he divided them into groups of seven there was no remainder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bright Boy | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

What is the smallest number of grandchildren that could meet the conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bright Boy | 5/25/1953 | See Source »

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