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Buhlie's mother, Josephine ("Dody") Ford, is the younger sister of Henry II and the wife of Walter Buhl Ford II, an industrial designer who is no kin to the automotive dynasts. Hearing all the talk of the Mustang, Dody asked her brother to let her try it. (Henry himself has been driving one on the freeway between Dearborn and Grosse Pointe, where the chances of being spotted by a photographer are slight.) When Buhlie cast his eye on the fire-engine-red Mustang in the family garage, he could not resist taking a spin, then somewhat carelessly parked...
...around a stipulation that houses in the development be occupied by the owner or his family, Baker said his "cousin, N. C. Tyler," would live there. "N. C. Tyler" was Nancy Carole Tyler, 24, a sultry, shapely brunette who, whatever her relationship to Baker may be, is certainly no kin...
...attacking the trade ("Any journalist may be exchanged for any other journalist without penalty") or rinse jobs ("I am not sure which is worse-to look like a blonde and feel like a journalist, or look like a lady and feel like a blonde") or her own kin: "My aunt's problem was remembering to remove a moustache she could no longer see, and trying not to wander around the house with her mouth open." As for the sluts of England-they may still feel miserable and optimistic, but they know they are no longer misunderstood...
...fact, Cheever is an old-fashioned moralist, and would be claimed as kin by that Old Lady from Dubuque for whom The New Yorker Magazine is not edited, but where, ironically, the bulk of his work has appeared. Old-fashioned abstractions that have almost been jostled out of intellectual currency-words like humility, goodness, pride, honor and love-constantly appear in his work. This has baffled some readers dazzled by the deceptively brilliant surface texture and the sort of knowing social-insider's stylishness that will set a time period with: "Now that was the year when the squirrels...
...knock out his bone marrow but to kill him, unless he soon got some more marrow. Within a week, they report in the British Medical Journal, they injected into his veins two quarts of a mixture of blood and bone marrow drawn from all six of his closest kin...