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...innocent appearance, Allen Dulles is uniquely qualified by background and experience to run the CIA. Like older brother John Foster Dulles, Allen was virtually predestined to take a hand in the management of U.S. foreign affairs. His father, a Presbyterian minister in Watertown, N.Y., was a nephew of John Welsh, envoy to Britain during the administration of President Rutherford B. Hayes. Maternal grandfather John Watson Foster had been Secretary of State under Benjamin Harrison and uncle Robert Lansing was to become Secretary of State under Wilson. At the age of eight, Allen, already deep in the problems of international relations...
...recent foreign ministers' conference in Washington, and still wants top-level talks with the Russians. But mostly, the old warrior pondered one grave decision: Should he keep on indefinitely in office, as he had always wished? Or should he hand over his favor to his faithful friend and (nephew-in-law) Anthony Eden, while he was still able to decide the succession? Eden's own health, and the ascending political popularity of two other Tory cabinet members, Rab Butler and Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, made the issue important...
...universally beloved by England's bluebloods. They mistrust him: his politics are comparatively liberal; he plays loose with some of the stuffier conventions of the palace; he is a foreigner-a Greek prince naturalized as a British citizen; but above all, he is a Battenberg, and a nephew of the dashing, controversial Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma and his equally controversial wife Edwina...
...have long felt that younger men should be given the opportunity to carry forward the aggressive policy of our company." The policy calls for construction of 35 to 40 new supermarkets by the end of 1954. His successor: Vice President and General Counsel Louis Stein (Friedland's nephew), 47, who joined Food Fair in 1929 as general counsel, was named a director in 1937, vice president...
Then Remo, their 14-year-old orphan nephew, came to live with them. Remo had beautiful eyes "framed in long and vigorous lashes." He would bend over them while they were working, and when they felt "his fresh, youthful, fruit-scented breath on their necks and faces, a novel, unexpected feeling of well-being would run through them, bringing with it a swift intoxication, a slight giddiness." Neither of the old maids had the least idea what was creating such havoc in their dried-up bosoms...