Word: scions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first "press conference," five-month-old Harold Ickes Jr., spit-&-image son of the Secretary of the Interior, posed for photographers (see cut), was irreverently labeled by newsmen "Young Ick" and "Scion of Sass." Shy, serious, six-foot David Rockefeller, youngest of John D. Jr.'s five sons, rode in Manhattan's subway to the Municipal Lodging House, looked over its rooms, ate a six-and-a-half-cent meal (corn soup, codfish, celery and green peppers, applesauce, milk) with homeless men, rode back in the subway to make notes for his University of Chicago Ph.D. thesis...
There he got backing from a 21-year-old graduate of Tulane University's school of journalism, John Thistlethwaite, scion of an old Opelousas family, and Vincent Moseley, who last fortnight ran fifth in Louisiana's five-man gubernatorial primary (TIME, Jan. 29). Day before Christmas, with young Thistlethwaite as publisher, young Fitzgibbon as managing editor, the Opelousas Daily World brought out its first (Sunday) edition...