Word: grandnephew
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...Right Perspective. To help him run Haus Villigst, 43-year-old Hellmut Keusen has two fellow directors, Novelist Willy Kramp, 44, and Labor-Expert Klaus von Bismarck, 40, great-grandnephew of the Iron Chancellor, and a U.S. couple, the Rev. John Healey, and his wife Kay, on missionary assignment from the Presbyterian Church...
...Among the 61 Attorneys General who preceded Brownell were a grandfather of Robert A. Taft (Alphonso Taft, 1876-77), a grandnephew of Napoleon (Charles Joseph Bonaparte, 1906-09), and a great-uncle of Herbert Brownell. The great-uncle (on his mother's side) was William Henry Harrison Miller, an eminent Indiana lawyer. Miller was named for President William Henry Harrison (although he was no kin), then was the law partner, political adviser and Attorney General (1889-93) of William Henry's grandson, President Benjamin Harrison One of Miller's Cabinet mates was Secretary of State John...
Back with his Princess to the scene of the Battle of Waterloo came Prince Napoleon, 39, great-grandnephew of the Little Corporal, to visit Bonaparte's old farmhouse headquarters. They brought with them a gift for the Belgian Society of Napoleonic Studies: a pennon of the Imperial Guard, carried from the battlefield 138 years...
...husband. Once when he was deep in numerology, he conducted a marital quarrel entirely in digits. "He was terribly mad at me that night," Anne Fuller recalled, "but all he would say was '27-4-32.' " Genealogy connects Buckminster Fuller to Transcendental Concord, Mass.; he is the grandnephew of Margaret Fuller, friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...Cotterill Sheperd, 58, was named to succeed retiring Chairman William Gage Brady Jr., 65, of Manhattan's National City Bank, second biggest in the U.S. Sheperd, who started with N.C.B. in 1916 as a trainee, has been its president since 1948. His successor: James Stillman Rockefeller, 50, a grandnephew of John D. Rockefeller, who started in the comptroller's department, became executive vice president only last Seotember...