Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shepard on this outsized (250,000 words) chunk of historical fiction, in which almost everything happens except the storming of the Alamo and the rape of Lucrece. Holdfast Gaines, despite his name, is a Mohegan Indian, in the direct line of the great King Uncas himself. He is a nephew of Samson Occum-whom Dartmouth men will remember as an Indian protege of Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth's pious founder. Nathan Hale is Holdfast's tutor. Among his friends and acquaintances: Daniel Boone, Tecumseh, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark...
...stranger was Achille Murat, son of King Joachim of Naples, and nephew of Napoleon. His father had already died before a firing squad, his uncle had been banished to St. Helena, when Murat applied for U.S. citizenship, and settled in the Territory of Florida. He drank steadily until his death at 46, speculated heavily, sired a number of mulatto Murats, married a great-grandniece of George Washington. Usually embarrassed for funds, he was once arrested on a charge of cattle stealing. But he was also sober citizen enough to be admitted to the Florida bar and to dabble in Florida...
...time for fun. He stopped in at the Grandview Masonic Lodge to confer the Second Degree on nephew Harry A. Truman, took newsmen on a morning stroll through the streets of Independence, went to a reunion of his World War I batterymates...
...Brunnell, Fla., Dominican President Rafael Trujillo's adopted nephew, Jose Adrian Trujillo Seijas, was shot dead outside a café by a sheriff's deputy. The sheriff said the cafe people had mistaken Trujillo and a friend for Negroes, and refused to serve them; a disturbance followed, and the deputy fired in selfdefense...
Braniff officials in Mexico City managed to get a temporary injunction against enforcement of the Government order. But airport guards (commanded by a nephew of the chief civil aviation official in the Ministry of Communications) ignored the injunction...