Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suffering from exhaustion, nervousness and a chronic skin disease, she has kept to herself, spending much of her time in a shrubbery-screened garden. With her are her nephew and niece, L. K. Kung and Mrs. Rosamond Chen, children of Dr. H. H. Kung, China's onetime Minister of Finance. She has four servants. Sometimes there are visitors-old American and Chinese friends, classmates from her days at Wellesley College...
When Antenor Patiño married, the son of Bolivia's tin tycoon became the husband of one of the best-dressed women in Europe: the stately Cristina, daughter of the Duke and Duchess de Durcal. He also became the nephew-in-law of Spain's late King Alfonso XIII...
...chief foreign correspondent, Cyrus Leo Sulzberger II, a star in his own right despite the fact that he is Publisher Sulzberger's nephew, took up residence in Paris...
...most of the debt from its new building, even to prosper with the tide of Bay Area war money. But ruddy, O'C.M. President Joseph V. Costello, who knew lean days in prewar San Francisco, decided to sell out. Reason: in his 60s, President Costello has only one nephew who is interested in the business. Said a competitor: "This was a good time to sell. It's just one of those deals where the family finally runs out of children...
...White Raja, who once organized expeditions into the interior to punish his head-hunting subjects, now putters around his English garden, leaves most governmental affairs to his nephew, good-looking Raja Muda (Heir Apparent) Anthony Brooke...