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...Bostonians and sometimes New Yorkers is the whole gently mountainous area of Southern Vermont and New Hampshire. Typical is the so-called Monadnock Region, with its cluster of unchanged and unchanging New England towns ?Peterboro, Dublin, Hancock, Jaffrey. Those with homes in the area include Chicago Newspaper Scion Marshall Field III, Harlow Shapley, famed Harvard astronomer, Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid camera...
...circle of the area every 15 minutes. The buggy also is used when residents visit their neighbors. There are some 70 homes on the point, two-or three-storied with numerous sun porches and beautifully kept lawns leading down to the shore. Among the house owners are Wrigley Offield, scion of the chewing gum clan, Elton MacDonald, creator of Plaid Stamps, and Frederick S. Ford, a director of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass. The Harbor Point Association carefully screens anyone wishing
...could no longer pay. So far, the Whitus case has cost Jones $8,000 of his own money, and he is threatened by anonymous phone callers ("You goddam nigger-loving shyster. We'll get you"). A local weekly recently ran a story about him under the headline: is SCION OF ALBANY FAMILY A TRAITOR TO HIS CLASS...
...that man in General Dietrich von Choltitz. The stubby, impassive Prussian had led the blitzkrieg on Rotterdam, and later, on the Eastern front, had earned the reputation of a "smasher of cities," starting with Sevastopol which he had leveled for Hitler on Hitler's orders. He was the scion of a Prussian family that in three generations as officers had never disobeyed an order. On Aug. 7, 1944, Hitler summoned Von Choltitz, put him in command of the Paris area and told him what...
...Americans then living in Britain will forget how on Nov. 22, 1963, they were besieged with calls from English friends, anxious to console them for the loss of their President. Irish-descended John F. Kennedy seemed more like a scion of England to the English. It was because his father was ambassador there, his brother died defending the Channel, and his sister married an Englishman. It was partly because his wealth, aristocratic upbringing and Churchillian rhetoric seemed in the English political tradition. But mostly it was that as former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan said last week, "He seemed to embody...