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...lifetime reputation of this great-grandson of Napoleon's Marshal Jean Bernadotte puts him squarely on the side of democracy in Sweden's undercover struggle. No less a democrat is his son, Gustafus Adolfus, who at 58 is still preparing to become King of Sweden. During the King's vacations Gustafus Adolfus has taken over his duties and his Ministers have found little difference between father & son. Not quite so tall, not quite so spare as Gustaf, his son has all his political acumen, all his popularity. It used to be said in Sweden that...
Bald, a broker, great-grandson of the banker Jay Cooke who helped finance the Union in the Civil War, 43-year-old Mr. Cooke is unopposed in the G.O.P. primary...
...dynasties of U. S. churchmen. An outstanding exception are the Kinsolvings of Virginia. George Washington Lee Kinsolving, a Tidewater aristocrat who once cut short a long sermon with, "Parson, isn't it grog time?", was bound that his only son should enter the church. Last week a great-grandson of old George Kinsolving did something as hearty as his ancestor's remark. He announced that he was leaving his big, rich, famed Boston parish for a small church in the little town of Princeton...
...profits kerplunked to a miserable $53,301 the next year. Reason: the stubbornness of President Charles Pearce (a Johnson man) in trying to hold his top-heavy volume in the face of rising distribution costs and collapsing soap prices. Up rose young (35) S. Bayard Colgate, great-grandson of the founder. Using his family's 40% ownership of the firm's stock as a lever, he booted Pearce out, took over the presidency, in one year had the company once more on an even keel...
...family, its friends and servants, and to make a rapid rather than stuffy job of it, is no bad idea. That the people should be caricatures, symbols, is fair enough. That they should also be stock-company characters-a tough old millionaire, a fat Hungarian cook, a brilliant great-grandson who dies for Loyalist Spain-is neither necessary nor advantageous. Noisy, self-confident, First-Novelist Longstreet flashes a sharp cartoonist's talent in the telling of his rather tawdry events. In spots Decade has real vitality. More often it is just "lusty...