Word: grandsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close, the judge's kind of character and uncompromising integrity are beginning to seem a little archaic, just as the big house seems to be an anachronism in the heart of a town daily becoming more industrialized and ugly. What is worse, the judge's grandson, a fine lad and a Princeton man to boot, cannot sustain the oaklike traditions which he so admires in the old man. He marries the wrong girl, is not much of a lawyer, and after he has fought in World War I, his sense of values is as battered as his body...
...nurse, ran a convalescent home that technically conformed to state laws even though there was neither full-time nurse nor night attendant nor fire alarm. One night last week fire swept through the hallways of the three-story home. Twelve people were killed: Mrs. Reagan, her seven-year-old grandson and ten patients, including one who could not walk...
Charles Calvert of Maryland, by John Hesselius, is one of the finest surviving examples of early Southern portraiture. The five-year-old subject, a great-great-great-grandson of Maryland's founder, stands like a general in full regalia ordering his troops to advance. But Calvert has the dreamy look of a little boy who wonders how soon he can go out to play. His personal slave seems the better actor...
Andrew Sakacs, 43, had a pleasant Saturday outing a fortnight ago with his son and little grandson. He tramped through woods in sparsely settled Lockwood Valley in California's Ventura County, got in some target practice. Back in El Rio and getting undressed, he noticed a red spot, like a fleabite, on the inner side of his right ankle, but thought nothing of it. Feeling fit on Monday, Sakacs, a retired Navy chief petty officer, put in a full day's work as a mechanic on a water research project at the Port Hueneme naval base. That night...
Your May 7 issue carries the statement that the christening of President Eisenhower's latest grandchild was the first such ceremony in the White House since Benjamin Harrison's granddaughter was baptized there in 1889. Not so, sirs. I attended the christening of a grandson of President Franklin Roosevelt's at the White House. The grandchild was John Boettiger, Anna Roosevelt's only child by her second husband. The christening took place on the second floor of the White House; four generations of Roosevelts were there: the President's mother, the President and Eleanor, their...