Word: grandson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Field's the bellwether of State Street's big four (the other three-Mandel Brothers, Inc., The Fair, and Carson, Pirie Scott & Co.-also hired no Negroes). Field's would not budge, though, ironically, Colgan's program had financial backing from Marshall Field Jr., grandson of the store's founder and president of the Chicago Sun-Times. Undaunted, Colgan worked quietly on the other stores. In July 1950, Carson's cracked the color bar by hiring a Negro administrative aide, then some other Negroes as office workers, and finally even Negro sales clerks...
Last week Iraq's King Feisal II and his cousin, Jordan's King Hussein, Abdullah's grandson, got together in Baghdad to patch up the spat. Both are 18, and new to their thrones; they acceded on the same day last spring (TIME, May 11). Neither had anything to do with the bickerings; they were away studying at England's Harrow during most of it. In the hot sun at Baghdad airport, they kissed in the Arab fashion, rode off together in a scarlet coach drawn by six white horses. Iraqi chieftains from far-flung oases...
Young Woodin (grandson of William H. Woodin, Franklin D. Roosevelt's first Secretary of the Treasury) is assistant director of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Trailside Museum. His purpose: to explore the intimate lives of all Southwestern reptiles, a subject not well known. Since reptiles are "coldblooded" (i.e., have no built-in thermostats as mammals do), they must adjust their activities to the temperature around them. In cold weather they are sluggish, and if they stay out too long in Arizona's searing sun, they die of heat prostration. So Woodin believes that an important step toward understanding...
Married. Jay Gould III, 32, namesake and great-grandson of the fabulous railroad financier; and Lina Romay, 29, dark-eyed songstress of stage (Michael Todd's Peep Show) and screen (The Man Behind the Gun); he for the third time, she for the second; in Los Angeles...
...Herbert Spencer Gasser, now retiring at 64 after directing the institute for 18 years, the trustees chose Dr. Detlev Wulf Bronk, 55, president of Johns Hopkins University since 1949. They also streamlined the institute's internal-command setup and elected David Rockefeller, 38, the founder's grandson, as, their own chairman...