Word: scions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago Reaper Scion McCormick, one of many non-Okie notables "bogged down" in scenic, climatic New Mexico (TIME, Oct. 28), thanks for another appraisal...
Died. James Butler, 49, rich Manhattan grocery-store and real-estate scion, head of Empire City race track and co-owner of the Maryland State Fair track at Laurel; on the eve of the fall meeting at Empire; of a broken neck, when his horse failed to take a fence jump near Katonah...
Married. Auto Scion Horace E. Dodge Jr., 40; and Showgirl Martha ("Mickey") Devine, 27, who once socked Primo Carnera in a Paris night club; he for the third time, she for the first; in Baltimore...
...many a State last week (see p. 18), the Democrats' mess was the Republicans' pottage. Happy and united were the Republicans. The man they had picked to take Joe Guffey's Senate seat was Jay Cooke IV, who, like Penrose, is what is known as a scion, also comes from Philadelphia's famed 8th Ward, and is the wealthy inheritor of not only a 1776 name but 1776 courage, proved in the Meuse-Argonne offensive...
DILDO CAY-Nelson Hayes-Houghton Miff I in ($2.50). West Indies novel, by a 36-year-old, French-born, U. S.-educated Connecticut businessman. Laid on a tiny windswept island (composite of Turks & Caicos), the story twists around the romance between the scion of a hardbitten, salt-making family and a disillusioned blonde who arrives from Bermuda to keep books. Hemingwaywardness bristles on the story like barnacles. But it has one claim to originality: Author Hayes's ingenuity in getting Adrian and Carol alone together on the island. Adrian's father drowns; his mother dies of neurosis...