Word: scions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Applicants for a marriage license in Manhattan: Hotel Scion G. David Schine, 30, the most public private in the U.S. Army during the 1954 Army-McCarthy tournament, and Sweden's statuesque (36-23-36) Hillevi Rombin, 24, renowned in 1955 as Miss Universe...
...today's scion of the Times, Norman Chandler is neither blusterous nor ruthless, casually fingers the Times lanyard with a friendly urbanity where his predecessors might well have shot the town to blazes. Under his father's no-nonsense hand, Norman plowed through boyhood farm chores, rode the range and punched cattle for a few happy years on the family's 300,000-acre El Tejon Ranch 75 miles north of Los Angeles, went to Stanford University (business administration). In 1922 he married Fellow Student Dorothy Buffum ('"Buffie"), dutifully settled down for a rough tour...
Hussein, like his people, is a figure caught between two worlds, and inside himself plays out many of the conflicts which rend the Middle East. He is the scion of one of Islam's proudest families, the 41st generation representative of the Hashemite clan in direct descent from the Prophet Mohammed. He is also the Westernized product of a British schooling, who likes nothing better than to tinker over a souped-up Cadillac at the Amman auto club, pilot his personal jet across the desert skies, or dance the Arabian nights out to Latin American jazz rhythms...
Oleomargarine Scion Minot F. ("Mickey") Jellce, 27, was sprung from a New York pen after serving 21 months for high-level pandering in Manhattan...
...answer split Macmillan's government down the middle. Ted Heath, chief Government Whip in the House of Commons, flatly warned the Cabinet that he could not guarantee the support of Tory right-wingers if Makarios were released on these terms. The Marquess of Salisbury, 63-year-old scion of the Cecil family, who have advised England's monarchs since the days of the first Queen Elizabeth, was even more adamant. Inflexibly, the tough-minded elder statesman pointed out that Makarios had "deliberately refrained" from meeting Britain's conditions for his release. To free the Archbishop...