Word: grandnephew
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...behind the Modern Museum's new photographic venture is David H. McAlpin, grandnephew of the late John D. Rockefeller Sr. A precise-minded shutterbug who clicked his first camera in 1906, balding, snap-eyed Mr. McAlpin spends many a spare moment from his Manhattan brokerage business getting fragments of the world on film. A collector of fine and rare photographs, McAlpin has long felt that U. S. museums ought to do more for photography. When, a year ago, he gave Manhattan's stodgy Metropolitan Museum $1,000 to buy photographs, the Metropolitan's board of trustees...
Oren Root Jr., a youthful lawyer, a grandnephew of the late Elihu Root, started a one-man campaign for Mr. Willkie, whom he had never met. Mr. Root's first step was to mail thousands of statements (each carrying spaces for 15 signatures) declaring the signers' enthusiasm for Mr. Willkie as President. Straightway he began to receive contributions. last week opened an office, announced he had already received 35,000 requests for "declarations." What did Mr. Willkie's Root intend to do with all these fertilizing signatures? Mr. Root had not yet decided...
Last February 41-year-old Elisha Waterman, grandnephew of the founder, resigned his job as executive vice president of L. E. Waterman Co., famed makers of pens. Not only did he resign, but last week he sued to dissolve the company. Not only did he sue, but in effect he called his relatives and co-officials boobs...
...brown-skinned subjects, he has never been able to establish much discipline over his own family. Ever since Privateer Jamie Brooke, of Coombe Grove, England, "persuaded" the Sultan of Brunei to give him an East Indian kingdom in 1841, the Brookes have been a strong ruling dynasty. Sir Charles (grandnephew of Jamie) modestly records in the British Who's Who that he has "led several expeditions into the far interior of the country to punish headhunters" and "understands the management of natives." But Sir Charles sired three daughters, no sons...
...shovelful of ground for the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon. She broke the sod with a beribboned spade supplied by Publisher Scripps of the News. The ceremony was unheralded : only the tower's architect and trustees, a few city officials, the News editor, Nancy Brown's grandniece and grandnephew were on hand...