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...until Patrick's great-grandson John Joyce Gilligan decided to run for Congress in 1964 that the two families' destinies converged. Jack Gilligan not only beat the Taft-ruled organization's candidate, Representative Carl Rich, but in his re-election race this fall is running against Alphonso's great-grandson, Robert Taft Jr., grandson of a U.S. President, son of Mr. Republican...
Married. Prince Michael of Prussia. 26, great-grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II; and Jutta Joren, 24. a secretary he met in Manhattan while training as a Pan American Airways sales representative; in a civil ceremony in Dusseldorf, to be followed this week by a Lutheran ceremony at the Hohenzollern family estates near Bremen...
...father's sect alive, founded a cotton empire, and had six sons of his own. Today, El Mahdi's descendants again rule the Sudan. His grandson, Imam Hadi el Mahdi, is the stiff, unyielding religious leader of the sect to which most Sudanese Moslems belong. A great-grandson, Sadik el Mahdi, is a young British-educated economist who led the Mahdists' Umma Party to victory in last year's election...
...Jazz Hot. The great-grandson of Anna's King of Siam, King Bhumibol is the world's first monarch to be born in the U.S.: in Cambridge, Mass., on Dec. 5, 1927, where his father, Prince Mahidol, was studying at Harvard. Mahidol died two years later, and Bhumibol, with his older brother Ananda and his sister, were taken back to Bangkok by his mother. After the 1932 coup, she moved them from the uncertainty of the capital to Switzerland, and there Bhumibol grew up in a modest villa in Lausanne, chauffeuring off each day to the Ecole Nouvelle...
...Weyerhaeuser Co., announcing first-quarter earnings of $17,005,000, named George H. Weyerhaeuser, 39, as president and chief executive officer, succeeding Norton Clapp, 60, who moves up to chairman. Weyerhaeuser, a great-grandson of the founder of the huge forest-products firm, made news at age 9, when he was kidnaped for $200,000 ransom. He was released after seven days, three kidnapers were caught, and most of the money was recovered...