Word: great-great-grandson
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Busy Angel. The next man in the lights was as sleek as Browder was shabby. Frederick Vanderbilt Field (TIME, Jan. 9) great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, is a busy, bright-eyed angel of Communism. His most recent wife was formerly married to Dr. Raymond Boyer, convicted participant in Russia's wartime spy ring in Canada. Field has given thousands of dollars to the Institute of Pacific Relations, wrote articles for its magazine, served as staff man and trustee from 1928-47. By Budenz' testimony, he was the spearhead of the Communist infiltration of the institute...
...Livingston Biddle Jr., 31, of the Main Line's very own Biddies, a great-great-grandson of Banker Nicholas ("The Old Nick") Biddle, a cousin of onetime Attorney General Francis Biddle and of Sculptor George Biddle, and the author of Main Line, a new novel that attempts to explain the society which produced...
...York divorcée whose engagement to another great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria's had just been announced. Her name alone was enough to make Mayfair gasp-it was Mrs. Simpson. This time, however, there was no danger that a romance would rock a throne. Romaine Simpson had no connection with Wally, Duchess of Windsor. Her fiance, handsome David Michael Mountbatten, did not have to ask his cousin George's permission to marry. The Marriage Act makes an exception of the offspring of princesses who marry into foreign families. Milford Haven's royal great...
...with Talbot. Though critics had long known of some lost Boswell manuscripts, it was not until 1926 that an inquiring scholar reported that he had seen a box of them at Ireland's Malahide Castle, home of Boswell's great-great-grandson Lord Talbot. U.S. Bibliophile A.S.W. Rosenbach immediately cabled an offer of $250,000 for the lot. Lord Talbot huffily refused ("Who is this person?" he demanded). Another U.S. collector tried a different approach: he dropped in for tea. Courtly Lieut. Colonel Ralph H. Isham, a Yale man who had served in the British Army...
John Jacob Astor III, globular 35-year-old great-great-grandson of the original, was recuperating on his New Jersey estate from a case of measles...