Word: grandson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have college-bred men with a true sense of public service actively interested in politics." The next day, October 11, Senator Wadsworth of New York told the University that President Harding's regime was doing great things for the country. And a few weeks later, Jean Longuet, grandson of Karl Marx, attached the French government and the Versailles Treaty...
These Southerners have all spent years reporting specific problems of the South. Clark Porteous, our Memphis stringer and top reporter for the Press-Scimitar, is a New Orleans-born grandson of a Confederate artilleryman, a Nieman Fellow (1937) and author of Southwind Blows, a novel about a Mississippi lynching. "The book showed the horror of lynching," says Porteous, "but it also tried to show all the spokes of the wheel, to tell the complexity of the South's traditional problem." Porteous considers himself a part of "the South's new generation"; he is pleased, but far from satisfied...
...Russian-born Trainer Sol Rutchick, it was a frustrating but satisfactory day. He missed his morning plane from New York, and did not see Count Turf live up to his breeding expectations. Son of Count Fleet, winner of the 1943 Derby, Count Turf is a grandson of Reigh Count, the 1928 victor. Six Derby winners have sired winners; Count Turf is the first winner's grandson...
...grand style of life. She had been, as one of the Enclosure stalwarts put it, "the only one around here worth the powder to blow her to hell." Those who survive are a sad lot: her son Christopher, a bilious minister devoted to the comforts of the flesh; her grandson Christopher Jr., a well-read neurotic who fritters himself away in hypochondria; her neighbor Moylan Stacy, an undertaker new to the Enclosure and representing the crudity of the new rich; a dilettante who sponsors opera stars for the sake of art and, sometimes, for the sake of his puny passions...
...thing the company has not changed: its control. It is still owned by the same family which founded it. Through three generations of Smiths, the company has been passed on from father to son. Last week the fourth generation took over. At 30, Yaleman Lloyd Bruce ("Ted") Smith, great-grandson of the founder, stepped into the presidency...