Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...folks by going swimming in white trunks, and at Black Mountain, where he used to take long walks in the woods with an escort of five dogs, roly-poly Professor Rice cut a slightly comic figure. But there was nothing comic about his mind. A preacher's son, nephew of U.S. Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith, John Rice grew up in a family of South Carolina individualists and became one himself, a rebel among rebels. He was a star pupil at Tennessee's famed Webb School, breezed through Tulane in three years, went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar...
...show that Herbert Haupt (son of Hans and Erna, nephew of Walter and Lucille) was an enemy, U.S. attorneys summoned to the witness stand Ernest Peter Burger, one of the two saboteurs who tattled on the others to save their own skins. To Americans who think of spies in terms of the movie-made breed of sinister villain, Ernest Burger was a distinct surprise. His grey suit was neat and quiet, his thin brown hair slicked down tightly, his deep-set blue eyes calm. As a witness he was courteous, cooperative, almost eager. Only once did he seem...
...twice been challenged to a duel. Because he is a crack pistol shot, neither duel was fought. Now over 70, Don Ezequiel shows up at the paper punctually at 5 p.m. for the daily editorial conference with Editor-in-Chief Dr. Rodolfo N. Luque. Present also is his nephew and heir-apparent, handsome Alberto Gainza ("Tito") Paz, 43, father of eight and ex-Argentine open golf champion. Significantly, La Prensa's owner-publishers visit their editor-in-chief and not vice versa...
...play-which takes its rather farfetched title from a legend that on St. Mark's Eve (April 24) a young girl standing at a church door may see the ghosts of all those who will die within the year-is dedicated to the author's nephew, Sergeant Lee Chambers, "one of the first to go, one of the first to die that we may keep this earth for free men." It is the thought of some other or possible Sergeant Chambers in every spectator's mind that accentuates the poignancy of Maxwell Anderson's drama...
Most spectacular of the new arrivals was that of Harish C. Mahinda, nephew of the Indian supply mission chief in Washington, D. C., who came from Calcutta by plane, crossing several battlefields in the process...