Word: grandson
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With reference to the June 1 item on the death of Andrew Jackson IV, great-grandson of President Andrew Jackson: Andrew Jackson "IV" was my mess sergeant in World War I, and I seem to remember that he explained his name to me as some adoption, saying that he was not a lineal descendant of the seventh President...
...Took a trip to the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, which Franklin Roosevelt named Shangri-La and which Eisenhower renamed Camp David in honor of his five-year-old grandson and namesake...
Businessman Stuart, president of Quaker Oats Co.,* liked the house and the appointment. Last week his name went to the Senate. The son and grandson of Canadians, he has been an inveterate tourist in Canada, has made a 1,000-mile pack trip across the Canadian Rockies, fished for salmon in Newfoundland, paddled a canoe north to Hudson...
Died. Andrew Jackson IV, 66, great-grandson of the 7th President of the U.S.; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. Born in the Hermitage, near Nashville, Jackson took turns at soldiering (World War I), high-school teaching, farming, wound up as a Hollywood character actor, played a U.S. Senator in The President's Lady (TIME...
...three Ford broth ers not only differ markedly in looks but in personalities. Henry, now 35, is tall (6 ft.) and plumpish, has an air of casual charm, a ring of earnestness in his voice, and an articulateness that makes him an ideal spokesman for the company. As the grandson of a man whose every pronouncement used to be Page One and free advertising, Henry has worked hard at his own role as the headline-winning industrialist. He has the pragmatic common sense of his grandfather, his father's even temper. Like Old Henry, he reads little...