Word: heir
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Porter was born in Peru, Ind. (pop. 15,000), in the corn country 75 miles north of Indianapolis, but his beginnings were hardly simple. He was the only child of a prosperous druggist, and the grandson and heir of coal and lumber Tycoon J. 0. Cole, who was worth something like $7,000,000. Though it took Cole years to satisfy his oh-such-a-hungry yearning for success on Broadway, getting there was not much more difficult than what a Porter lyric describes as "a trip to the moon on gossamer wings."* His comfortable itinerary included stops at Worcester...
...competitive market, he gave his corporate team a transfusion of new blood. Dapper, grey-mustached Harlow ("Red") Curtice, 55, the man who had put Buick back on its feet (TIME, Sept. 20), was made an executive vice president and became the man widely regarded as Wilson's heir apparent-a not entirely comfortable spot, considering corporation rivalries...
...officer refused, he made the same plea to his favorite mistress, but she, too, declined the honor. The reader has Author Lonyay's full assurance that another mistress, Mary Vetsera, was delighted to accept. She was thrilled at the thought of being found dead in bed with the heir to the throne...
...their French relatives), partly because it was borne by many of Philip's Danish ancestors, and mostly because the young parents just liked it. King George, whose final approval was necessary, gave it without a moment's hesitation, and London's papers promptly dubbed the new heir "Bonnie Prince Charlie...
There are, says Fishbein, about 3,500 scientifically trained practicing psychologists and psychiatrists. But there are at least 25,000 others-"many of them charlatans"-who advertise that they can cure every psychic ill that man is heir to. The public now pays $375 million a year to these psychological quacks...