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Lord Mountbatten was not Victoria's last surviving great-grandson as you said in the story on his funeral [Sept. 17]. Another one is still very much alive, and he even wears a crown. I know, because he happens to be my King, Olav V of Norway, son of Maud, daughter of King Edward VII, who was Victoria...
...Rockefeller, West Virginia Governor and great-grandson of Standard Oil's John D.: "I don't have a whole lot of faith in what the oil companies...
This week Anheuser will announce the introduction of Michelob Light in major markets. Says Chairman August Busch III, the founder's great-grandson, also a brewmaster: "You will see other marketing and product innovations as the year unfolds." Industry scuttlebutt has it that Anheuser is contemplating a move into soft drinks, where profit margins and growth are larger than in brewing...
DIED. MacKinlay Kantor, 73, prolific writer best known for his Pulitzer-prizewinning novel Andersonville, which depicted the brutalities of a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp; of a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. Kantor, great-grandson of a Union Army officer, first became intrigued by the Civil War at the age of ten, when he perused a Civil War encyclopedia. The intrigue became an obsession 20 years later as he launched his 42-book career. A stickler for accuracy, he did prodigious research, visiting and revisiting Gettysburg and Andersonville for his Civil War novels and flying eleven combat missions with...
...ceremonial firelight. It was the Hindu wedding, in East Detroit, of Lekhasravanti (nee Elizabeth Louise Reuther), 30, daughter of the late Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, and her fellow Hare Krishna member, Bhusaya (Bruce Dickmeyer), 27. The best man: Ambarish, 27, otherwise known as Alfred Ford, great-grandson of Henry I. No other Fords were in sight, but the bride's uncles Victor and Ted Reuther gamely padded around in their socks and joined the festivities. Said a wide-eyed Victor: "If these walls could only talk, think what they'd be saying about...