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DIED. PRINCE ALEXIS D'ANJOU DE BOURBON-CONDE, 47, heir presumptive to the Russian throne; of complications from brain tumors; in Madrid. Alexis claimed to be the grandson of Grand Duchess Maria, the third daughter of Csar Nicholas II; either Maria or her sister Anastasia, some have theorized, escaped the Bolsheviks' 1918 massacre of Russia's royal family. Last October, Alexis gave a blood sample for testing to compare his DNA with that in bone samples taken from the massacre site; no official findings have been released...
...county commissioner--her political education is of the highest class. Her father Webster Todd, a building contractor whose projects included Rockefeller Center, was influential in the presidential candidacies of Eisenhower and Nixon. Her mother was a fund raiser for George Bush. Her husband and adviser John Whitman is the grandson of a Governor of New York. At least by lineage, she represents the pragmatic and waning Republicanism of Rockefeller. Says Marge Roukema of New Jersey, the ranking Republican woman in the House of Representatives: ``She shows the party must be more broad-based...
...first thing that came to my mind was that this is a good opportunity for a free meal," said Wallace's grandson Peter F. Wallace '97, a Crimson editor...
...Larry, Moe and Curly apparently extends to the Three Stooges' squabbling heirs, whose fortune the Los Angeles courts have been forced to divvy up. Today, a jury awarded more than $2 million to descendants of two of the famed troika (Larry Fine and "Curly Joe'" DeRita). The reason: the grandson and daughter of the Stooge-in-chief, Moe Howard, had stiffed the others on revenues from Stooge-related products. Jean DeRita, Curly Joe's widow, now gets almost $1.6 million, and Fine's grandchildren receive about $500,000. BTW: The next stage of the trial, punitive damages -- ouch! -- began today.Post...
...Teddy Roosevelt was a Republican," said Roosevelt, the great-grandson of the former president. "Every family has a tragedy. That's mine...