Word: nelsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sometimes the new brood, like the old, wonders who is ahead in the walking. In December 1946 the Rockefeller brothers thought about donating the 3,000-acre family estate near Tarrytown, N.Y. for the site of the permanent headquarters of the U.N. Nelson got on the phone to J.D.R. Jr. The soft-voiced questions came crowding in. "Is this what the United Nations prefers? Is this the ideal location?" "No." "What is?" "New York City, of course." Then Nelson mentioned a possible $8,000,000 or $9,000,000 property beside Manhattan's East River. J.D.R. Jr. asked...
...mind that I had to conquer my shyness. I had to get a measure of social ease," he wrote home to his mother, who frowned on dancing. He began calling upon a Providence belle named Abby Aldrich, daughter of Rhode Island's powerful, wealthy senior U.S. Senator, Nelson Aldrich, at her home at 110 Benevolent Street. He took Abby to college dances and football games, out on tandem rides and canoeing trips down Ten Mile River. ("She was so gay and young and so in love with everything.") Week by week the entries piled up in the ledger: "Flowers...
...identical stamp. J.D.R. Jr. was bringing the next generation along, teaching them about thrift and the Bible-but letting them play tennis on Sundays. The brothers took their places in the philanthropies, but developed interests of their own-John III, shy like his father, is an authority on Japan; Nelson, husky, aggressive and the most public-minded, was adviser to Roosevelt on Latin America, until recently Eisenhower's Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and foreign-policy adviser; Laurance is a businessman like his grandfather; Winthrop, after quitting Yale, winning the Bronze Star off Okinawa, and earning tabloid...
worth $1,600,000. He is also a Red-hot Marxist and a major character in a matter of increasing concern to the U.S.: Western Europe's mounting exchange with Red China. In the four years since Dino Gentili clamped a half nelson on Italy's China trade, he has pushed it from almost zero to $1,000,000-plus a month. Italy has now climbed to third place (behind Britain and West Germany) among Western European nations in trade with the Chinese mainland...
...laws at all, much less the more specialized injunctions against shaving, work on Saturday, etc. And they think almost nothing of intermarriage. Said one Israeli rabbi last week: "Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller were married by a Reform rabbi. Just think−such a thing could happen here if Nelson Glueck gets...