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Died. Andrew Jackson IV, 66, great-grandson of the 7th President of the U.S.; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. Born in the Hermitage, near Nashville, Jackson took turns at soldiering (World War I), high-school teaching, farming, wound up as a Hollywood character actor, played a U.S. Senator in The President's Lady (TIME...
...Name and rank?" For a moment the young German fighter pilot, shot down near Stalingrad, wondered if it was safe to admit to the Russian interrogator that he was Count Heinrich von Einsiedel, the great-grandson of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. But his hesitation lasted only a moment: von Einsiedel gave his name and famous pedigree...
Back in 1896 when auburn-haired Grace Graham Wilson bagged young Cornelius Vanderbilt, most of New York's 400 agreed that it was a most unsuitable marriage. As a great-grandson of the tough old Commodore who built the New York Central, Cornelius Vanderbilt had some claims to aristocracy. Grace's social assets were far more modest. Her father, Richard T. Wilson, was a onetime Georgia farm boy whom well-bred New Yorkers regarded with distaste because he had made his fortune himself and had started it by speculating in cotton while more gentlemanly Southerners were off fighting...
Being the grandson of one U.S. president and the great-grandson of another, Henry Adams was nurtured in the cozy expectation that he might one day become the third in line. That he turned out to be a Harvard history professor so disappointed him that he spent most of his life investigating what sort of a world it was that didn't have a better use for Henry...
Died. Lammot du Pont, 71, onetime head of the U.S.'s most famed family industry, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., and board chairman (1929-37) of the General Motors Corp.; of heart disease; in New London, Conn. Great-grandson of Eleuthére Irénée du Pont, who founded the original powder mill on the banks of the Brandywine in 1802. he was president from 1926 to 1940, succeeding his older brothers, Pierre, 82, and Irénée, 75. During the depression he launched the company on a program of research into...