Word: grandsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grandson of a marshal of France, and an ex-army officer with a hard-earned World War II resistance record, he is a man of proven courage. A minister in six postwar governments, who as head of Defense had spearheaded the Suez adventure and the get-tough Algerian policy, he has political experience, ambition, determination. What probably caused Bourgès' voice to break like an adolescent's as he read out his speech was that he knew as well as everyone else that his program offered no solution for France's financial crisis, no hope...
Brand-new grandparents Harry and Bess Truman journeyed from Independence, Mo. to Manhattan's Doctors Hospital, on the way acquired a baseball and glove for their just-arrived grandson, Clifton Truman Daniel, first child of their daughter Margaret and New York Timesman son-in-law Clifton Daniel. Asked if he hoped the baby would grow up to be President, the ex-Chief Executive said he wouldn't wish that on anybody, later gave a no-nonsense description of the young Democrat: "It looks like all babies two days...
...small (18 in. by 13 in.) heraldic glass panels. Dated 1588, they bore on the left the coat of arms (three red mullets and red and white bars) of John Washington, George Washington's great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. Probably made for John's grandson Robert, the panels had stayed in the Washington 16th century Sulgrave Manor for almost 300 years, but recently turned up as kitchen windows in the Northamptonshire home of Littérateur Sacheverell Sitwell, who put them up for auction...
...sons, Kim, now 3. Legally fatherless, little Kim was last week the object of a private tug o' war that will probably never land in the courts. Racer de Portage's mother, Olga Martin-Montis, holder of the De Portago purse strings, is fond of her grandson, reportedly wishes to adopt him herself. All for keeping the boy and wangling from Olga a settlement on him is Kim's mother, onetime famed U.S. Model Dorian Leigh, 36, jilted last year by the marquis (long estranged from U.S.-born wife) after he ran afoul of the charms...
...Faulkner, his stay in an ivory tower 'at Charlottesville was a pleasant interlude. He spent hours playing with his 13-month-old grandson Paul Summers (his daughter Jill is married to a third-year law student at the university). He also toured nearby Civil War battlefields in a battered station wagon. He and his wife lived in a Georgian house just a 15-minute walk from the rolling campus that Thomas Jefferson picked for the university he designed and started to build. Normally shy, Faulkner delighted school officials by accepting outside speaking invitations...