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...their souls ever since by putting on the records, leaning back with smiles of dreamy malice, and listening to Mrs. Roosevelt and the wild, shrill piccolos, excitedly warning a little bird that the cat is creeping ("Look out!") toward its perch. Mrs. Roosevelt is content to know that her grandchildren enjoyed her performance immensely...
...year singing career, Martinelli lives comfortably in a midtown Manhattan hotel. He coaches a little, currently has high hopes for two of his pupils. His family is scattered: his wife is in Italy to be near their children (one son, two daughters) and grandchildren-including five-month-old Giovanni Martinelli. But Giovanni the elder likes "to be here because of my season. I preserve at least the illusion of not being retired...
Wood's generosity to his own family goes far beyond the covers of the catalogue. He has already given his wife, children, grandchildren and great-granddaughter 57,000 shares of Sears stock, now owns only 52,000 shares himself (worth about...
...Wood has his own way of encouraging national expansion. He promised each of his four daughters a mink coat when she had her third child. To date, three of the daughters have collected. Wood has 15 grandchildren and one great-grandchild...
...slight look of shabbiness about his 15th Century Sussex house, King's Land, shows the slimness of the owner's purse. The furnishings of the old house have been neither changed nor moved since the death of Belloc's wife in 1914. His children and grandchildren (one of whom is a monk, another a nun) are often there with him, but Chesterton is dead and few other friends survive to fulfill his youthful vision of old age-a time, he had hoped, when...