Word: great-great-grandson
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Died. Count Charles de Chambrun, 77, U.S.-born great-great-grandson of Lafayette (and thus an honorary U.S. citizen), longtime (1901-36) French career diplomat; of a kidney disease; in Paris. As Ambassador to Rome during the '30s, he became a great friend of Mussolini, tried to keep Italy from joining the Axis. In 1937 he was plunged into a diplomatic scandal when, as he was about to board a train at Paris' Gare du Nord, he was shot in the groin by a French journalist named Madeleine de Fontanges, who claimed that...
Died. Viscount Astor, 73, onetime (1939-44) Lord Mayor of Plymouth, newspaper executive (the London Observer); of asthma; in Cliveden. A New York-born great-great-grandson of John Jacob Astor, he became a British subject when his father was naturalized in 1899, later married tart-tongued Nancy Witcher Langhorne of Greenwood, Va., who became the first woman to sit in the House of Commons (1919-45). Said he: "When I married Nancy, I hitched my wagon to a star; when she got into the House of Commons, I found I had hitched my wagon to a sort...
...Laurence Hoes, president of the James Monroe Memorial Foundation and great-great-grandson of Monroe, expressed surprise at this news. Said he last week: "If the Monroe cut-glass decanters are missing, they have been lost in recent years. I myself saw them in the White House as late as the Hoover Administration...
...Treasury Building on Manhattan's Wall Street, Alexander Hamilton, president of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society and great-great-grandson of the first Secretary of the Treasury, awarded General U. S. Grant III the society's George McAneny Medal for his work in preserving historical landmarks...
...while away the hours on lonely Cocos, great-great-grandson Ross V has golf links, a fast yacht, a long-range radio transmitter, a tight little cellar of Scotch whisky and a 5,000-volume library (mostly whodunits). But ships call at the Cocos Islands only twice a year; the 19 resident whites are all men, and lonely John kept thinking of an English girl he had met last fall on a trip to England to study colonial administration at Oxford...