Word: scions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctor's postnatal slap. He was the first-born of five children-of Arthur Hanbury Godfrey and the former Kathryn Morton of Ossining, N.Y. Father Godfrey, a freelance writer and expert on horseflesh, claimed to be the son of Sir John Godfrey, onetime Viceroy of India and scion of a wealthy Liverpool brewing family. Arthur recalls that his father was "a raconteur and a gentleman full of old-school aristocratic thinking. Therefore, in business, he stunk." Since none of the ancestral glories have proved verifiable, Arthur now suspects that his father embroidered them to 'compensate for his financial...
Eleven days later Miss McKenney became the second Mrs. Michael Lyman- "Conway" proving to be only a penname adopted by radical Mike out of deference to his wealthy family ("A scion, eh?" whistled Sister Eileen: "Remind me to look twice at the next New Masses editor we rope in").* The happy couple settled down in Greenwich Village, where life would have been sheer heaven if only the first Mrs. Lyman, who was "tall, willowy and beautiful" and possessed "seven million dollars, strictly in government bonds," hadn't given vent to the "strong streak of dog-in-the-manger...
...attitude must have touched some hidden, bourgeoise chord in her heart, for when her scrupulous scion lay asleep she was forever "feasting loving wifely eyes on his profile" and reflecting: "How gentle his face . . . against the bedclothes. How distinguished the curve of his high cheekbone...
...Readers who look twice will find that in real life Scion Mike is neither Lyman nor Conway. Both pseudonyms conceal San Francisco-born Richard Bransten, better known to New Masses readers as "Bruce Minton...
...accountant was a company veteran (14 years) named Daniel Cardoso Pimenta. Along with a scion of one of Rio's best families, Chief Cashier Nelson de Almeida Cardoso, he was charged with having embezzled the funds through a tricky system of interoffice bookkeeping entries. Just after auditors spotted the shortage in a routine year-end checkup, Accountant Pimenta disappeared. Cashier Cardoso betook himself to a Rio hospital where he was reported resting under the care of a staff physician, his brother...