Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reported in one edition of the London Daily Mirror, dropped before the next, was the engagement of a working girl to the Hon. Gerald David Lascelles, handsome, 18-year-old son of Britain's Princess Royal, nephew of George VI. Icy denials came from Buckingham Palace, but the girl's mother confirmed it. The bride-to-be, if bride she becomes, is slim, dark-haired, 17-year-old June Morris, who works in a factory canteen. "It doesn't matter to me who he is," she said in a declaration half out of Grimm, half...
...former Russian baron, Meyendorf, the second speaker, is a nephew of Prince Oblonsky, the White Russian leader who is also in this country at the present time...
Toast of the Town. Hospitable Logansport went into a tailspin over its newfound heroes. First they were sent to a local restaurant with a blanket order for all they could eat. The Deputy Prosecutor, Kenesaw M. Landis II (nephew of the baseball commissioner), who had questioned them, took them home with him. The Elks gave a dance in their honor. Members of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Elks, Eagles, Knights of Columbus and Rotary Club got together to plan a giant shindig...
...Chinese Military Mission sent by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to help the U.S. plan and coordinate campaigns in the Far East. Head of the mission is General Hsiung Shih-hui, a quick-witted, rugged, battlewise soldier. One of its members is Peter Chuh, the Gissimo's nephew. Several of them speak as well as fight Japanese. Most of the members have known the Japanese intimately in battle-for five years past...
These are the conclusions of a small, soft-spoken Hindu astrophysicist, Dr. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar of the University of Chicago. Born in Lahore 32 years ago, he is a graduate of Madras and Cambridge Universities, a nephew of Sir Chandrasekhara Raman, who won a Nobel Prize (1930) for his studies on diffusion of light...