Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will of the late Elizabeth N. Graham, better known as Elizabeth Arden, disposed of an estate valued at some $50 million by settling $2,000,000 on a niece, Mrs. Patricia Graham Young; $4,000,000 on her sister, Vicomtesse Henri de Maublanc; $1,000,000 on a nephew, John B. Graham; and a total of $3,000,000 on maids, chauffeurs and some 200 employees in her beauty empire. The principal beneficiaries: New York State and the U.S. Government, which will take approximately $39 million in estate taxes...
...night on the town with Neighbor Alec Guinness. The sly old seducer lures her to a disreputable inn where-true to formula-his promised evening of bliss ends up as a harmless orgy of slammed doors and mistaken identity, climaxed by a chase involving a fat lady, a nephew, an upstairs maid, a seething proprietor, a bellboy, gendarmes, four skittish schoolgirls, an underdressed chanteuse and a doddering duke...
...Endowment Inc. had laid out $7,300,000 for the travertine-faced structure that is the centerpiece for Houston's new cultural complex. No expense was spared. When a fireplug by the entrance created a jarring esthetic note, it was chrome-plated. And when Jesse T. Jones Jr., nephew of the publisher, handed Mayor Louie Welch a gold key to the hall, he said pointedly: "That key really works. Uncle Jesse liked things to work...
...fulminating helplessly, as the family splits over the hoariest of issues: political realism v. political idealism. O'Connor's solution is resourceless and unbelievable: Governor Charles, the realist, has his brother Phil, the idealist, committed to an insane asylum. The story is narrated by Jimmy's nephew, Jack Kinsella, who supplies the book's other direction. Jack's wife Jean has run off to Europe with a cad, but later returns to his side. Reunited, Jack and Jean visit Ireland, where the book comes to a happy ending: Jean conceives...
True to his reputation for intransigence, the younger Thurston refused to relinquish the reins of his faltering newspaper. He scorned the man who seemed destined to succeed him, his Yale-trained nephew, Thurston Twigg-Smith. "He's never been any damn good at anything," he sneered. Twigg-Smith, however, had a different view of his own abilities. In 1961, he engineered a "palace revolution." Though he controlled only 42% of the paper's stock, he quietly signed up other rebels, including the paper's ambitious editor George Chaplin, who had been hired from the New Orleans Item...