Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parisians were as interested in La Scala's guest conductor as in its standout singers. The conductor was slight, thirtyish Manno Wolf-Ferrari, nephew of one of Italy's last surviving big-name operatic composers, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (The Jewels of the Madonna, The Secret of Susanne...
...retiring because of his age-he claims to be 71, is suspected of being closer to 75. "In justice to my city and my family," he said, "I must pass on the heavy burden of administrative duties to younger men." The younger man he had in mind was his nephew, Frank Hague Eggers, 46. On June 17, Eggers would officially take over as mayor, when Hague's city commissioners officially elect...
...years remained of his eighth term as mayor. By walking out now, he could give nephew Eggers those two years to learn the ropes. Eggers would gradually be given Hague's other jobs, and Uncle Frank could devote more time to watching horse races. This was fine, except that many veteran Jersey City ward leaders were worried about the future. At week's end, there were rumblings of revolt against untried nephew Eggers...
...classes of 30, more than 500 German boys & girls have already "graduated" from St. Michael's. Many were onetime members of the Hitler Youth, some were professed atheists and agnostics, one was the nephew of Nazi Minister of Economics Walther Funk. Results have been more encouraging than even Founder Nye hoped for. Nearly all the students bombard the lecturers with questions. Of a recent class made up exclusively of boys from the Adolf-Hitler-Schule at Sonthofen, 27 said that they were deeply impressed; two were unimpressed; the 30th decided to become a priest...
...Shaun Kelly Jr., 33, nephew of Groton's Headmaster John Crocker, was appointed headmaster of Virginia's Woodberry Forest School...