Word: grandsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slow but tolerable melodrama, set in 1848 Manhattan, about a velvet-gloved struggle between good & evil forces for the wealth of a dying reprobate (Louis Calhern). Leslie (An American in Paris) Caron, playing a sweet young thing sent from Paris by the old man's grandson, wants the money for the cause of the French Republic. His calculating housekeeper-mistress (Barbara Stanwyck) wants him to die in a hurry while she is still favored in his will...
...Royal Typewriter Co., world's biggest producer of typewriters, no name is more regal than Ryan. The company was founded 47 years ago by Thomas Fortune Ryan, a tycoon who controlled a billion-dollar empire of banks, railroads, insurance, mines, utilities, tobacco, etc. His grandson Allan A. Jr. is now chairman of the board. Last week Allan's younger brother, Fortune Peter Ryan, who inherited $3,300,000 from his grandfather,* stepped into the Royal presidency...
...London, George Mansfield, 39, farmer and naturalized British subject since 1945, filed for the right to resume his full and legal name: Prince Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Christof von Preussen. Said the grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II: "It is only a question of establishing legally my correct family name and title. The name Mansfield was merely a convenience in my business dealings on the farm...
...while away the hours on lonely Cocos, great-great-grandson Ross V has golf links, a fast yacht, a long-range radio transmitter, a tight little cellar of Scotch whisky and a 5,000-volume library (mostly whodunits). But ships call at the Cocos Islands only twice a year; the 19 resident whites are all men, and lonely John kept thinking of an English girl he had met last fall on a trip to England to study colonial administration at Oxford...
Tory Burleigh, 46, who described himself in the ad as "reasonably intelligent, tall, healthy and strong," said that he, his wife, son, daughter and grandson are "anxious to live and not exist . . . willing to work, learn and give loyalty . . . possessors of keen sense of humor (at present untaxed)." Burleigh served 5½ years overseas in the British army, came home to find his house blitzed and jobs scarce. "It seemed that in this country I was considered derelict because I was over 40." He went into business for himself, then became a salesman but didn't make it, finally...