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...closed-door trial. Not allowed inside the courtroom, he talked outside with foreign correspondents and signed a statement branding the proceeding a "wild mockery." He has managed to avoid arrest so far only because he is the grandson of the late Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov, and thus the scion of an old Bolshevik family. "I am definitely not a revolutionary, but neither am I an organization man," he says. "I must do what my heart tells me." Still uncowed after his dismissal, Litvinov announced that he would fight to get his job back by appealing his case to the local...
Married. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 69, scion of one of New York's first families, journalistic gadabout, author of 27 books (Man of the World: My Life on Five Continents), mostly about himself; and Mrs. Mary Lou Bristol, 41, his sometime secretary; he for the seventh time, she for the second; in Reno...
Cleveland's mayoralty race had every prospect of being a model campaign. Democrat Carl B. Stokes, a Negro and son of a laundry worker, and Republican Seth Taft, scion of a distinguished political dynasty, are candidates of demonstrable ability and goodwill. Moreover, both had seemed determined to keep the campaign out of the mud. But by last week the race had descended from issues to insults...
...scion of an old, well-established Boston political family, White is no parochial Bostonian. He combines an ability to do business with district ward-heelers and a keen, compassionate sense of the city's racial problems. There is no doubt that the progress of the New Boston--with infusions of new business and federal aid--will continue under White's shrewd leadership...
...fact, the book is a wildly turgid monologorrhea narrated by "D.J.," an 18-year-old Dallas scion, who spews obscenity like-like Norman Mailer...