Word: grandsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flesh; what has already perished in the stands is hope, mind and spirit. Among the fatally gored spectators: an icy arch-mom, the "chaste virginal mother of three"; her husband, a man who has transferred what little emotional-venture capital he once had into 3% matrimonial bonds; their grandson, a mobile Davy Crockett brat; a one-shot bohemian playwright who carries a pants pocket he once tore from Ty Cobb's uniform as a lucky charm; a transvestite and his keeper, a German-born quack psychoanalyst who unnerves his Midwestern patients by drowning out their confessionals with his record...
Your write-up of Estes Kefauver was very illuminating. But it needs to be completed by the statement that Senator Kefauver is the son of a Baptist deacon, grandson of a Baptist minister and one of the outstanding laymen of the Southern Baptist denomination...
...enterprising daughters formed a liaison with a "low poet" of the Restoration named Congreve, and the son she bore died a hopeless drunkard. This was an omen perhaps of the centuries the family would lie fallow until another Churchill, half American by blood (great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson of John and Sarah), would rise to rally and astonish the Western world...
...Braun common room, the outstanding school renovation since the endowment drive began, was named in memory of the Rev. Samuel John Braun (1856-1938), an important figure in American Protestantism. Funds for the room were donated by his grandson, William J. Braun, a student at the School...
Early Life & Politics: Son of a village storekeeper and grandson of a miner who lost his job trying to start Australia's first miners' union. A selfmade man of 61 who is tremendously proud of his background, he calls himself "a reasonably bigoted descendant of the Scottish race." Winning top scholarships from schooldays on, he took first-class honors in law at Mel bourne University and went on to become Melbourne's ranking barrister, earning $50,000 a year and "taking silk" at 34, to become the youngest King's Counsel in Australian history...