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...Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1940 to coach the freshman crew, he was determined to beat good neighbor Harvard in a big race. Although Harvard had helped to start M.I.T.'s crew in 1913 with equipment and advice, the relationship had long been that of a poor nephew and rich uncle. Long before he became varsity crew coach five seasons ago, McMillin was thoroughly fed up with being just a poor relation...
...Horween, nephew of former Crimson football star and coach Arnold Horween, played the outstanding game for the Red and White. His stickhandling was clean, his checking hard, and his shooting accurate. He opened the scoring for Middlesex and added another goal in the third period...
...down slap outside the Andrews home, and its owner, an idle-rich sponsor of radical causes named Margaret Harries, stops off long enough to whisk proletarian Pamela off to the vast Harries home as parlormaid. Here, Pam promptly runs into the path of Mrs. Harries' pampered, drunken, lecherous nephew, Charles. Like her 18th Century predecessor, she needs most of the rest of the book to convince him that her pure ears are deaf to any plea short of wedding bells...
Join-or Else. Gangland murders increased, rival racketeers died untidily, and Charlie prospered. Binaggio decided he was big enough to take on Tom Pendergast's nephew Jim, the titular Democratic boss of Kansas City. In the 1948 primary, Binaggio's candidates beat Pendergast's for every county office...
...chosen envoy was William Pitt Amherst, Earl of Arakan and nephew of famed soldier of the King, Lord Jeffrey Amherst. In July 1816, William Amherst reached the North China coast. He was most hopeful, as his secretary later recorded, that "the eclat of an embassy from the Crown of England" would persuade "Oriental barbarism" to grant commercial privileges. But the high & mighty mandarins who escorted him ashore and inland to Peking soon demolished his hope...