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Died. David Hinshaw Yoo, 11 months, great-grandson of the late John Foster Dulles and only child of Dulles' granddaughter Jane Hinshaw and Hyon Yoo, a Columbia-trained Korean economics professor, now at Seoul University; in an accident when the infant became entangled in an electric blanket; in New York...
Awkward Period. Ted Bensinger, a great-grandson of the founder of the company (formerly called Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co.), was company president and second-in-command to his elder brother Bob, the chairman, when he became worried about Brunswick's almost total dependence on its bowling business. In the early 1950s he pushed through a small diversification program, turning out aircraft components and school furniture. But before he could do more, his _ worst fears came true. American Machine & Foundry Co. invaded the bowling market with its automatic Pinspotter, which eliminated pin boys-and started bowling on its boom...
Mountain Mover. All the Shelburne's pieces were gathered with loving care by President Webb, who founded the museum in 1947 with her late husband, J. Watson Webb, a great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Now 71, Mrs. Webb has always been a compulsive collector. "It's like being an alcoholic," she says. Her interest in collecting comes naturally: she is the daughter of the Henry O. Havemeyers, whose multimillion-dollar collection of old masters was left to the Metropolitan Museum. Her parents were baffled when Electra got interested in Americana, and at 18 collected her first item...
...Great-grandson of Patent Medicinist Lydia Pinkham...
Kindly Stygian. Betjeman's nostalgia is for the Victorian past; his heart is in its poor remnants, and he frankly calls himself "a case of arrested development." He was raised comfortably in London, great-grandson of a Dutch-descended Englishman who grew rich on inventions such as the tantalus, a contrivance to keep Victorian housemaids out of the port. Betjeman went to Oxford's Magdalen College, where he detested his tutor (Author C. S. Lewis), failed to get a degree because he forgot to take "divvers" (divinity...