Word: grandson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. George Vanderbilt, 43, great-great-grandson of Railroad Tycoon Cornelius ("Commodore") Vanderbilt, sportsman, big game hunter; by Anita Zabala Howard Vanderbilt, 53, onetime wife of Sportsman Lindsay Howard; after nearly twelve years of marriage, no children; in Honolulu...
...York's Judge Samuel Seabury seemed almost an anachronism in the gay, irreverent 1920s. The son, grandson and great-grandson of clergymen, he saw part of life through the stained-glass windows of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He saw another part with the solemn, pince-nezed gaze of a reform-minded lawyer and jurist. The worst of what he saw was symbolized by James John Walker, New York City's twice-elected (1925, 1929) mayor. Jimmy Walker, top hat perched jauntily askew, wisecracked his way through the '20s like a handsome Bacchus, and it was perhaps inevitable...
...clergyman and grandson of a well-known Swiss satiric poet, Düurrenmatt turned to drama after studying philosophy at the universities of Bern and Zurich. He settled in Neuchatel "because I wanted to be alone, far away from friends who would constantly call on me, hampering my work...
...pointers last week on how to be a king from a man who very much wants to be one. As Mohammed V explained his plans for spreading more democracy throughout his land, his distinguished guest. Henri Robert Ferdinand Marie Louis-Philippe de Bourbon-Orleans, Comte de Paris, great-great-grandson of King Louis-Philippe and pretender to the throne of France, somewhat nervously interrupted...
...fight in its 94-year history. The ring was a igth-floor hall in Chicago's Merchandise Mart. In one corner was short, pudgy Pabst President and Chairman Harris Perlstein, wearing grey suit, tan shoes and grey tie. In the other, the challengers: Robert and David Pabst, the grandsons of the Pabst founder, Fred Pabst, and Otto and Carl Spaeth, son and grandson respectively of the founder of Premier Malt, which bought out Pabst...