Word: great-aunt
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King of Alcatraz (Paramount). That old favorite, the escaped gangster disguised as somebody's great-aunt, in a lively melodrama otherwise distinguished chiefly by the complete absence of star names from the cast...
Seventy-four years ago Frederik's beauteous great-aunt Alexandra traveled from Copenhagen to London to marry robustious Edward of Wales, who became King Edward VII, who begat George V, who begat Edward VIII, who abdicated in favor of George VI (Danish Frederik's second cousin), whose Coronation was at once the most splendid and the most pumped-up party that Europe has seen this century. Prince Frederik and his princess were returning from it for another and very different kind of party: the Silver (25th) Jubilee of the reign of the world's tallest monarch. Frederik...
...first hole on the Tam-0'Shanter Golf Course 75,000 Pennsylvanians and Ohioans were gathered to hear the first Landon campaign speech in the East. While Nominee Landon was shaking hands with his relatives of all degrees and kissing his 83-year-old great-aunt so lustily that he knocked her hat off, the crowd was treated to another spectacle: Onetime Senator David Reed and onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot, Republican arch-enemies in Pennsylvania, marched out on the speaker's platform, shook hands and were photographed together. Harvey Taylor, Pennsylvania's Republican Chairman, introduced the speaker...
...brick Methodist Church where his grandfather, the Rev. William H. Mossman, once was pastor. The Rev. Henry G. Shilling (a registered Democrat who is going to vote for Landon) preached for 40 minutes. Having put a dollar bill in the collection, Nominee Landon departed for Sunday dinner with his great-aunt, his old nurse "Aunt" Mary Baird and others who cared for him in infancy. Finally he went to the parsonage, his birthplace, took a nap in Preacher Shilling's Study...
...ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War. Her paternal grandmother's family, she believes, sold the Federal Government the Hudson River bluff on which the U. S. Military Academy stands at West Point, N. Y. Her great-aunt was appointed West Point postmistress by President Polk, served for 49 years. Her mother was born at West Point. Her father, Lieut. Henry Moore Harrington, graduated from the Academy in 1872, was killed with General George Armstrong Custer at the Little Big Horn. For kindly, plain-faced Spinster Grace Aileen Harrington this distinguished ancestry brought its reward: appointment as West Point postmistress...