Word: grandson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governor Earl Warren of California saw his three-week-old grandson for the first time during an Eastertide family get-together in Oakland, and was excellently photographed with young James Lee Warren. James Lee's dad: 24-year-old Marine Lieut. James Warren...
Tinkering Yankee. Lean, sharp, salty, 54-year-old Van Bush is a Yankee whose love of science began, like that of many American boys, in a passion for tinkering with gadgets. Born in Everett, Mass., near Boston, grandson of a whaler and son of a Universalist preacher, Bush feels most at home in a Cape Cod fishing boat. Possessed of insatiable curiosity and a prodigious memory, he has solid learning in the more obvious forms of literature (he quotes Kipling and Omar Khayyam by the yard), likes to read philosophy, plays the flute, loves symphonic music, has been a successful...
...lover of the late Queen Marie of Rumania, the mortal foe of her moody son, ex-King Carol, the presumed father of her youngest daughter, Ileana.* Now the loyal aging go-between was embarked on one last attempt to save the trembling kingdom for his loved liege's grandson, young King Mihai...
Died. Joseph C. (Crosby) Lincoln, 73, folksy, voluminous Cape Cod-born Cape Cod novelist; of a heart ailment; in Winter Park, Fla. Apple-cheeked son and grandson of sea captains, between his first novel (Cap'n Eri, 1904) and his last (The Bradshaws of Harniss, 1943), he usually summered on the Cape, wintered elsewhere, stub-penciled more than a book a year...
Harry Burleigh lives in The Bronx, has been separated from his wife for some 25 years. Their son is Major Alston Waters Burleigh, U.S.A., and there is also a grandson in the Army. Harry Burleigh has had the means to help many younger Negro musicians, including Marian Anderson, who sang on one of his programs when she was publicly unknown. He views social problems with a conservative eye, believing that the Negro should advance himself through individual effort rather than political action. A musician of classical training, he is not at all interested in jazz. His hobby: detective stories...