Word: grandson
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...layoffs that began in 1984, of course, but stayed alive in some workers--particularly those for whom employment at AT&T had become a family tradition. Marie Fletcher, a St. Louis telephone operator from 1921 until the late 1950s, when she began a well-provided retirement, always counseled her grandson Brian to work for AT&T if he wanted to be treated well. Brian, now 36, followed her advice in 1984, and is a residential-equipment troubleshooter and union official in St. Louis; two sisters-in-law also work for AT&T. Brian's wife Linda is a federal probation...
...committee, chaired by weed Roosevelt '64 (great-grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, who donated the antler chandeliers which illuminate the Great Hall), was formed late last month...
DIED. PAOLO GUCCI, 64, hell-bent-for-leather grandson of the fashion empire founder, whose combative role in the company helped ignite a family feud that ended with the exodus of all the Guccis from the House of Gucci; of liver illness; in London. DIED. ROBERT FINCH, 70, manager for Richard Nixon's fumbled 1960 White House campaign, H.E.W. Secretary after Nixon finally took the Oval Office in 1968; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, California...
...porter asks Ryder the next morning to look up his daughter Sophie and his grandson Boris in the Hungarian Cafe. When Ryder does so, Sophie tells him about a house she will see tomorrow, in the hope that the three of them can settle down there together. Ryder takes this odd information calmly: "For the fact was, as we had been sitting together, Sophie's face had come to seem steadily more familiar to me, until now I thought I could even remember vaguely some earlier discussions about buying just such a house in the woods...
...grandson of first-generation Japanese-American farmers -- who, along with his parents, were interned during World War II -- Nagano grew up on a 500-acre artichoke farm on the West Coast halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. He studied conducting at San Francisco State University and sang with the San Francisco Opera chorus before joining Sarah Caldwell's Opera Company of Boston as an apprentice conductor. Returning to the Bay Area in 1979, he won a reputation by leading the small Berkeley Promenade Orchestra (now the Berkeley Symphony) in such unlikely concert-opera ventures as Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina...