Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yachts, Grouse & Newspapers. Marshall Field Jr. was not always that decisive, and the Sun-Times not always that moderate. The paper began its life in 1941 as the Chicago Sun, the creation of Field's father, Marshall Field III. Heir to a department store fortune accumulated by his grandfather, the senior Field was also a fervent New Dealer and devotee of liberal causes. He founded his paper mainly to give battle to McCormick's ultraconservative, Roosevelt-baiting Tribune. The paper was something of a flop. By 1950, after turning the Sun into a tabloid, merging it with...
Free World Heir. As CINCPAC, Admiral Felt heads the largest military command in the world, capably fills a job that demands a readiness for the violent arts of war and the gentle arts of diplomacy...
Last week Martini was buried with Moslem solemnity. His wife is his sole heir, and Paris wondered whether Helene Martini would sell and run, or stay and fight for her neon inheritance. At week's end she gave her answer. "I am keeping my husband's business," said Helene firmly. In a warning to Corsican and North African rivals, she added "I will fight them all. I am by nature a fighter...
...critical state following a coup d'état." Glumly, the Emperor lunched in his Sāo Paulo hotel room on lobster thermidor, stared out the window and pondered the unkindest cut of all. The revolt had apparently been led by his own son and heir, Crown Prince Asfa Wassan, 44. By that night the Lion of Judah was back on his private DC-6B and bound for home...
...sixth time, he for the second; in Santa Monica, Calif. Miss Turner's previous husbands: Clarinetist Artie Shaw; Restaurateur Steve Crane, whom she married twice ("I was lonely. I have to have someone to love, and there was Steve"); Socialite and Tin-Plate Heir Bob Topping ("This is forever"); Film Tarzan Lex Barker...