Word: great-great-grandson
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...Hurry. The boss of Guinness is the second Earl of Iveagh (rhymes with diver), 76, pink-cheeked, white-haired great-great-grandson of the founder. Lord Iveagh, who by preference and habit drinks only Guinness or water, was twice winner (1895-96) of the Diamond Sculls at the Henley Regatta, pioneered pure milk production in England, now runs a dairy farm on his 23,000-acre estate in England. Lord Iveagh and the Guinness family still have controlling stock in the company which, in 1950, earned ?1.9 million ($5.3 million...
Died. Jack (Charles John) Holt, 62, oldtime cinemactor (Born to the West), father of Cinema Cowboy Tim Holt; of coronary thrombosis; in West Los Angeles. Born in Virginia, the son of an Episcopal minister and great-great-grandson of Chief Justice John Marshall, Holt had hard experience as sandhog, Alaska pioneer and Oregon ranchhand before his hard face became known to millions of moviegoers...
...latest batch of Boswelliana (more than 500 items) was discovered by the present Lord Talbot de Malahide, who launched a treasure hunt of his own after inheriting the title in 1948 from Boswell's great-great-grandson. In accordance with the arrangement his family had made, he sold the papers to Lieut. Colonel Ralph H. Isham, Manhattan Boswell collector who has purchased all the Malahide and Fettercairn finds. By last week the collecting colonel had sold them in turn to his old alma mater, Yale...
...Other illustrious descendants of John and Abigail: grandson Charles Francis Adams, Abraham Lincoln's Civil War minister to the Court of St. James's; great-grandsons Henry Adams and Brooks Adams, historians; great-great-grandson Charles Francis Adams III, yachtsman, banker, and Secretary of the Navy...
...legitimate" pretender, Henri d'Orleans, Comte de Paris, was less fortunate. Moustached Henri, who looks as all French counts should in fiction and many French garage mechanics do in fact, is the great-great-grandson of King Louis Philippe. As the Bourbon-Orleéans* pretender to the throne, Henri has spent most of his 41 years hovering in expectant exile just outside the boundaries of France. In 1931 he married Isabelle d'Orleéans-Bragance, the doe-eyed, lovely daughter of a pretender to the throne of Brazil. Fearing that the line might become...