Word: grandson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...railway worker and great-grandson of a Methodist bishop, Bradford picked up his Runyonesque jargon as a carnival piano player, horse trainer, apprentice embalmer, boxer ("I was stomped on up and down the border for five pesos and a bowl of chili per fight"). He once carried a spear in Aïda when Caruso sang Radames...
...Green, "The Witch of Wall Street" (1835-1916); in Manhattan. As a girl, she often lived in shabby flats, cooked and sewed to save pennies for her millionaire mother. She grew up an ungainly recluse, usually dressed in black, at 38 married 57-year-old Matthew Astor Wilks, great-grandson of Millionaire John Jacob Astor I. Wilks left her a mere million to add to nearly $50 million from her mother, $43 million from her brother. Like her mother, she spent little on herself, less on others, multiplied her fortune through stocks and real estate. She left no immediate heirs...
Among Warren Austin's more vivid memories is his maternal grandfather Robinson. The vinegary old Vermonter, when aroused, used to terrify his grandson with a cryptic and thunderous shout: "The Dragon! The Dragon...
...dean, Washington Cathedral picked the rector of St. Paul's Church, Cleveland, the Rev. Francis B. Sayre Jr., 36, son of the former U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines and grandson of Woodrow Wilson...
Died. Jack (Charles John) Holt, 62, oldtime cinemactor (Born to the West), father of Cinema Cowboy Tim Holt; of coronary thrombosis; in West Los Angeles. Born in Virginia, the son of an Episcopal minister and great-great-grandson of Chief Justice John Marshall, Holt had hard experience as sandhog, Alaska pioneer and Oregon ranchhand before his hard face became known to millions of moviegoers...