Word: grandson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Operating at the start only on suspicion, U.S. investigators got their first firm lead from Frederick Arthur Savory-a great-grandson of U.S.-born Nathaniel Savory who colonized the Bonins in 1830-when he returned from exile in Japan bearing gruesome reports of executions and cannibalism...
...Latin drills and the no-nonsense teaching that made the old man the South's leading prep-school educator for more than 50 years. The headmaster now is Old Sawney's son, William Robert Webb Jr., 72 himself. And one of the newest faculty members is Grandson William Robert Webb III, just back from the wars. About 2,000 miles away, at Claremont, Calif., Sawney's youngest son. jovial, pipe-smoking Thompson Webb, 58, was about to begin another year at the 24-year-old Webb School of California...
Alfonso Gonzalez Pardo, great-grandson of ex-President Manuel Pardo of Peru, spent a night in a Manhattan jail for lack, purely momentary, of $50,000 bail. Wife Ann, an ex-Powers model suing him for $4,000-a-month alimony, had him arrested just to keep him on the scene. He had already sent about $600,000 home to Peru, she charged, and she was afraid he was going there himself. Said he: "I have no immediate plans, so I will stay here a while...
Dunbar says he resolved to lead a U.S. symphony orchestra when he was a boy in British Guiana, the great-grandson of a slave. Says he: "I knew I would. I believe I am psychic...
...McCarthy victory turned one more page of a storybook career. The grandson of an Irish immigrant, he started out as a grocery clerk, worked his way through law school and was elected at 29 the youngest circuit judge in Wisconsin history...