Word: grandsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just before World War II, Electus D. Litchfield, a Manhattan architect who is Cox's great-grandson, appealed to President Franklin Roosevelt, who proved sympathetic but without any legal power to reverse the 1814 court-martial. Two years ago Litchfield persuaded Georgia's Representative Eugene Cox (no kin) to introduce a resolution restoring William Cox to the rank of third lieutenant as of his death in 1874. This was the resolution before the House Armed Services Committee last week. The outlook is that Litchfield, now 80, and 30-odd other descendants may see the family name cleared...
...Bemelmans tells it, his present state of ease is a great surprise to him. The grandson of a Bavarian brewer, he showed early signs of being the family flop. He never managed to get through school, failed miserably as an apprentice in his Uncle Hans's string of Tyrolean hotels. Finally, in desperation, his family sent him to the U.S., and there he started failing all over again...
...Weil Jr. in Yale's famed Lit. magazine. The poem was prophetic, for destiny's doors seemed to develop a habit of opening before brainy young Richard Weil's imperious knock. The doors of Macy's, the department-store chain, opened because Weil was the grandson of Isidor Straus, one of the original owners. But Weil rose rapidly on his own merits. By 32, he had been propelled from a sales clerk to president of Bamberger's, Macy's Newark (N.J.) store. In 1949, at the age of 42, he became president of Macy...
...Federation." Shuman was on the negative, along with Socialist Lord Stansgate and a young Bevanite named Patrick Uber. On the affirmative: Guest Speaker Paul Reynaud of France (see FOREIGN NEWS), and Shuman's presidential opponents Norman St. John-Stevas, former president of the Cambridge Union, and Oleg Kerensky, grandson of Russia's last pre-Bolshevik Prime Minister...
...Olympic Skier Jim Griffith died last month as the result of a skiing accident while practicing at Alta, Utah. * Grandson of Millionaire Thomas Fortune Ryan. * Estimated chances against a break: about 800 to 1. *Glamorous blende Dagmar, winner of both F.I.S. slalom titles in 1950, has made two movies, and has reportedly "gone Hollywood." Austrians says: "She is no longer a mountain girl...