Word: great-grandson
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...known of the Negro strain in their ancestry. The story the relative dug up would affect a number of other families in the neighborhood, all sprung from the loins of Cap'n Newt and Rachel. Last week a court in Ellisville convicted Cap'n Newt's great-grandson of miscegenation, sentenced him to five years in jail...
...exotic marriage seemed to be in store for Prince Dom Joáo de Orleans e Braganca, 32, great-grandson of Brazil's last emperor, but gossip columnists could not agree on the bride. One said it would be beautiful Princess Fatima Toussoun of Egypt. Another report said that the hard-working prince, a Brazilian airline employee, would wed beautiful Fawzia, newly divorced by the Shah of Persia (TIME, Nov. 29). Neither the prince nor the lovely ladies could be found by inquiring reporters...
Died. Samuel Southey Hinds, 73, silver-haired Hollywood character actor (Destry Rides Again, Call Northside 777); in Pasadena, Calif. A great-grandson of British Poet Laureate Robert Southey, Hinds was a millionaire lawyer who went broke in 1929, turned to the movies as a bit-player, in time became known to millions of moviegoers by playing the distinguished man of wealth he had once been in real life...
...London, the seventh Duke of Wellington, great-grandson of the hawk-nosed original, dutifully opened an exhibition of modern sculpture with an appropriate speech, but midway raised his own gallinaceous nose and broke out: "And now about modern sculpture-I really cannot make out what it is all about...
...hand knowledge of Ohio politics, Hart was-campaign manager for Senator Harold Burton in 1940, for Ohio's Governor Thomas Herbert in 1946. Eastern headquarters in New York's Sheraton Hotel is headed by an affluent New Jersey lawyer named Amos Peaslee. In Philadelphia, Jay Cooke, great-grandson of the Civil War financier and a onetime G.O.P. candidate for the U.S. Senate, is in charge. In Chicago, active Stassen supporters include former Under Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard, United Air Lines President William Patterson, and Walter Paepcke, chairman of the board of the Container Corp. of America...