Word: grandson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Celebrated on New Year's Eve the seventh birthday of his granddaughter Susan, second girl of son and current junior presidential aide Major John. Ike's highlight: helping apple-of-eye grandson David, 10, pick out a $2 cloisonne necklace, a $1 box of stationery, a $1 spelling game for sister Susan. "Well," muttered Ike after peeling the bills out of his pocket, "we did the best we could...
...week's end he left off working on his messages, took his only grandson, David, 10, in tow and drove into town. Accompanied by Secret Service guards, Ike and the boy marched into a couple of shops, where the President explained that David was ill-prepared for Gettysburg's below-freezing weather, came out with a couple of brand-new outfits: insulated boots ($14.95), plaid wool shirt ($2.95), corduroy trousers ($4.95), knee-length wool socks ($1.50), single-breasted, charcoal, Ivy League-style suit ($27.50), and grey slacks ($8.95). Ike paid the $60.80 bill (plus sales tax) in crisp...
...also mirrors Taoist thought, which regards "everything as destroyed and everything as in completion . . . reaching security through chaos.'' Asked where he had got this idea, the sage Nu Yu replied: "I learned it from the Son of Ink. The Son of Ink learned it from the Grandson of Learning. The Grandson of Learning from Understanding, and Understanding from Insight . . ." Korin's art is insight direct...
Divorced. Dan Topping, 47, co-owner (with Del Webb) of the New York Yankees, millionaire grandson of Metal Magnate Daniel Gray Reid (American Can Co.), onetime husband of Cinemactress Arline Judge,* Skater Sonja Henie and others; and Alice Lowthers Topping, 30, onetime Manhattan model; after six years of marriage, two children; in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico...
...director, Helmut Kautner, can speak through the visual medium many times more subtly than through the verbal. He records scenes that express the whole depth of the film in a few seconds. And old woman offers the boots of her dead grandson to Helga, thinking she has deserted the Germans of her own will, and Kautner elicits a dramatic poignancy that is almost unbearable. In just the last few frames of one sequence a kitten appears to follow Helga out of the room, and by his cinematic control the director turns the kitten into a pure manifesation of the faltering...