Word: grandson
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...Stockholm, Sweden's new King Gustaf VI took the royal oath, announced that his personal motto would be "Duty Above All," with Queen Louise acknowledged the cheers of his subjects. Then the King picked up his tired little grandson, Crown Prince Carl, 4, heir apparent to Sweden's throne, and carried him off to the quiet of his palace room...
...unable for the first time in 42 years to deliver his annual address at the opening of Parliament; it was read for him by his son Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, who this week at 67 became King Gustaf VI. Sweden's new heir apparent: Prince Carl Gustaf, 4, grandson of the new King...
Despite his other achievements, the U.N.'s Ralph J. (for Johnson) Bunche, Palestine mediator and 1950 Nobel Peace Prizewinner, likes to list his profession as "educator." At 46, Schoolman Bunche, grandson of a slave, has spent more than half his life on college and university campuses. A graduate of the University of California in 1927 (where he was a crack basketballer), he took his Ph.D. at Harvard. Later, he studied anthropology at Northwestern, The London School of Economics, and Capetown University, finally became professor of government at Howard University in Washington...
...since the American Revolution, they have also helped to fight the nation's wars and make the nation's laws. One James S. Wadsworth left the Genesee Valley in 1861 to serve as a Union general. His son, and namesake, served in Congress for 20 years. His grandson, the third James Wadsworth, did just what his ancestors would have expected...
...latest batch of Boswelliana (more than 500 items) was discovered by the present Lord Talbot de Malahide, who launched a treasure hunt of his own after inheriting the title in 1948 from Boswell's great-great-grandson. In accordance with the arrangement his family had made, he sold the papers to Lieut. Colonel Ralph H. Isham, Manhattan Boswell collector who has purchased all the Malahide and Fettercairn finds. By last week the collecting colonel had sold them in turn to his old alma mater, Yale...