Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kasner last week said he had received letters from several notable persons of eclectic interest, commending him for his choice of the name "googol" for his number. Both "googol" and "googolplex" were suggested to him by his nephew, at that time aged...
That Brasher's original paintings might be together forever, he and Nephew Philip, the artist's business aid, negotiated an agreement with Connecticut's State Park & Forest Commission in 1934: Brasher would give his paintings; the State would within two years build a wheel-shaped gallery for them in Kent Falls State Park. Month ago, the museum not having been built according to the agreement, Philip Brasher drove to Hartford, declared the paintings forfeit to the artist. Few days later he & wife trundled them down to Washington, where this week, in the National Geographic's large...
...China's late sainted Dr. Sun Yatsen, nephew by marriage to the Man & Wife of the Year (see p. 12), became last week the first prominent Chinese Government official to attempt to leave China since the Japanese captured Nanking (TIME, Dec. 27). Boarding an airplane at Hankow, Son Sun gave out that he was flying to Hong Kong, would thence speed to Europe on a trip including Moscow. Meanwhile Communist leaders in China were loudly demanding the resignation of various prominent members of the Government which has had to flee Nanking and disperse itself in various Chinese cities (TIME...
...pocket was the visiting card of "Herr Schott." Among people mysteriously missing in recent weeks was a young German, Arthur Frommer, who had an uncle named Schott. Aroused at last, secret police agents traced Uncle Schott to Nice. He had no recollection of giving any visiting cards to his nephew, but did remember giving his card to a plausible young German named Eugene George Weidmann. Eugene George Weidmann was discovered living at St. Cloud under the name of Siegfried Sauerbrey. Inspectors Poignant and Bourguin of the Paris police dropped in on him. Before they were halfway through the doorway Weidmann...
Weeks before in the Walt Disney offices in far Hollywood, Ted H. Osborne had conceived a Mickey Mouse comic strip episode in which a Duke Varlott plots to gain the mythical throne of Medioka from his under-age nephew, King Michael. The Mickey Mouse strip is distributed by Hearst King Features Syndicate, one of whose clients is the Belgrade Politika. First Regent of Yugoslavia today is Prince Paul, first cousin once removed of King Peter, a minor, an analogy to the Mickey Mouse comic which few foreign papers failed to draw when fortnight ago Mickey Mouse was suppressed from Politika...