Word: grandson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...everybody has the stuff to be an art collector; it takes money and taste as well as the urge to collect. Joseph Pulitzer Jr. had all three by the time he was a senior at Harvard. Grandson of the founder of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, son of its second editor-publisher, he had been surrounded by art at home from childhood, and had sharpened his taste in four years as a fine arts major. In 1936 Joe Pulitzer made his first leap as a collector, bought Amedeo Modigliani's Elvira Resting at a Table (opposite). For the next...
...days, Japanese jingoism centered around the strident, state-supported cult of Shinto. The big holiday for nationalist noisemaking was Feb. 11, known as kigensetsu (Foundation Day), solemnly determined by later scholars as the day in 660 B.C. when Japan's founder, Emperor Jimmu, great-great-great-grandson of the Sun Goddess, ascended the throne with the divinely sanctioned mission of making Japan "the center of the world...
...Francis A. Johnson, 48, vice president of Endicott Johnson, became fourth president of the 63-year-old shoe company, succeeding his cousin. Charles F. Johnson Jr., 69, who became chairman of the board. Frank Johnson, grandson of the firm's founder, George F., and son of its second president, George W., began at the bottom as a tennis-sneaker worker in 1931, eventually managed two of the company's three upstate New York plants, served nine years as vice president of the flourishing family business (1956 net: $2,771,158), which is now the second biggest U.S. manufacturer...
...went up when a small, dusty Wolseley entered the palace gates: "Here comes Butler!" Then some one recognized the bareheaded man sitting next to the driver in the front seat, and shouted: "It's Mac, the bookie!" Forty minutes later, Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan, half-American grandson of a Scots tenant farmer, ex-Grenadier Guardsman and wartime friend of President Dwight Eisenhower, walked out of the palace as Her Majesty's Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury...
...first marriage and the adopted son of her second husband, Railroad and Shipping Financier Morton F. Plant. But because Miss Bennett said nothing about the boy until after the divorce proceedings were final, for years claimed that he was adopted. Mrs. Rovensky never officially recognized him as her grandson...