Word: nephews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Galloping about Manhattan on an early-morning constitutional, Visitor Harry S. Truman, 72, told trailing newshounds why he hopes daughter Margaret, expecting a child in July, will name no boys after him: "It would be a handicap all his life. I have a nephew named after me-a sergeant in World War II*-and this name almost deviled him to death. The worst thing in the world is to have a President in the family...
...Symphony, in 1949, and Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, in 1952). ¶ Veli Mukhatov, 40, praised by Khachaturian for his oratorios. ¶ Akhmed Gadzhiev, 39, noted for a 1952 symphonic poem, Peace. Other young Russian composers, better known outside the Soviet Union: ¶ Karen Khachaturian, 36. Aram's nephew, whose eclectic, highly rhythmic Violin Sonata in G Minor has been recorded by Russian Virtuoso David Oistrakh. ¶ Andrei Volkonsky, 23, whose works hint at Hindemith; he migrated from France to Russia a few years ago, caused a stir in Moscow last year with a Piano Quintet...
King's story left Hollywood profoundly unconvinced. Last week nearly everyone in the colony was gleefully playing a slapstick guessing game about King's goateed friend. Oddly enough, King has a nephew named Robert Rich who has occasionally worked around the studio. But this Rich, now an accountant, has truculently denied that he wrote the story...
...Marlowe, concentrated on literary criticism and history. His thoughtful, conscientious works include The Great Rehearsal, a vivid narrative of the Philadelphia convention that drafted the U.S. Constitution, and, at the top of his achievement, the biography of Benjamin Franklin that won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1939. Like his nephew, Carl Van Doren had an encyclopedic mind. Wrote Novelist Sinclair Lewis: "He could have sat down with Erasmus; but they would have discussed football or girls or the vintage of their wine as vigorously as the latest stirring discoveries in Finnish philology...
...this admiring book Author Charles Beatty, nephew of Admiral Earl Beatty, Britain's World War I naval hero, writes a passionate defense of all the acts of Ferdinand de Lesseps' life. The biographer's adulation prevents the reader from discovering the man beneath the trappings of the hero. But of De Lesseps' effect on his time and on history, there is no doubt. The world still struggles clumsily with the problems he posed, and still has need of men like De Lesseps, who always "expected to meet friends rather than enemies, yet was always sword...