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Died. Charles Aubrey Eaton, 84, Republican Congressman from New Jersey for 14 terms (1925-52) and unwavering internationalist; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Canadian-born (Pugwash, Nova Scotia) "Doc" Eaton entered Congress at 56 after a career as a Baptist minister (he steered his nephew, Cleveland Financier Cyrus Eaton, away from the ministry because "there is more than one way to serve God"), reporter, magazine editor (Leslie's Weekly) and industrial consultant. Although he kept up a running attack on New Deal-Fair Deal domestic policies, he plugged for bipartisanship in foreign affairs, helped found the United...
When in good spirits, as nephew Budu tells it, Stalin ribs the comrades unmercifully. "Viatcheslav Mikhailovitch," he yelled at Molotov during one gorodki game, "you hold the stick like an old woman with a broom!" Sputtered Molotov: "I'd like to see you try to play gorodki with glasses on!" Watching Budenny, the handle-bar-mustached old cavalryman, swig vodka at dinner, Stalin joshed: "Our Marshal goes through the vodka like Suvarov.* Too bad he doesn't resemble Suvarov in other ways...
...died in the 19305, the islanders decided to do away with hereditary rule and elect new Sultans by popular vote. The first elected Sultan promptly abdicated. His successor, Prime Minister Amir Didi, was perfectly willing to run the government, but he chafed at the travel restrictions. So did his nephew, Amin Didi, who was designated to succeed...
...Smith had been brought to the Chronicle as an editor in 1933 by his friend and patron, George T. Cameron, now 79, whose wife is one of the four heirs to the paper. But by last week, George Cameron was no longer the only owner's voice. His nephew, Charles Thieriot, 39, was taking a more active interest in the Chronicle as boss of the paper's TV station, and his younger brother, Ferdinand Peter Thieriot, 32, was on the job as a circulation executive. The biggest stockholder of all, Nan Tucker McEvoy, 33, George Cameron...
...Hart. This time Hart is neither sandpapering comedy gags nor polishing dramatic commonplaces. He has been lured to the jungle of British Guiana, where an odd kind of missionary lives with his odd kind of family, and where there arrives, shell-shocked by civilization, a tense and neurotic English nephew...