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They are: Mrs. Sara Lindsey, a past president of the Houston Junior League; Mrs. Janet Davis, wife of the president of a die-casting company; and James Houstoun, an insurance man. Another cousin is Houston Accountant Howard Gano, who is the son of the brother of Hughes' mother. Most of them had not seen Hughes since he returned in triumph from his world flight in 1938. Says Sara Lindsey: "All the kids in the family rode in the parade in 1938. We haven't seen or heard from him since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: THE HUGHES LEGACY SCRAMBLE FOR THE BILLIONS | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...Sarah Houstoun Fleming, Eleanor Randolph Wilson, Doris I. Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 30, 1939 | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...year he was admitted to the Tennessee bar, lean, virile William Gibbs McAdoo, 22, married Sarah Houstoun Fleming of Chattanooga. She bore him six children, saw him grow rich & famed, died in 1912. Next year Mr. McAdoo became Woodrow Wilson's first Secretary of the Treasury and, somewhat hopelessly because he was already a grandfather and twice her age, began courting the youngest of the President's three daughters. On a bench near the foot of the Washington Monument one December evening he plucked up courage, proposed, was accepted. Secretary McAdoo, 50, and Eleanor Randolph Wilson, 24, were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: No. 3 for McAdoo | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

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