Word: son-in-law
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...Answer. After his fitful, feverish life, Pound is not resting. He lives in his son-in-law's medieval castle in the Italian Alps, completed Canto No.111 last Christmas, and hopes to push the count to 120. Apart from romping with his grandchildren, he fires Menckenesque letters around the world, and his talk, as he once said, is still "like an explosion in an art museum." He is scarcely a hero, but as minister without portfolio of the arts he has served more gallantly than most, and he has never had any truck with "the almost-good...
...veteran of many a campaign tea party, Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy, downed coffee and cake on a four-day swing through The Bronx, Brooklyn and Long Island, and pulled out one organ stop farther than anyone else has. Referring to the wartime deaths of her eldest son Joe and her son-in-law, Rose Kennedy told the housewives: "Jack knows the sorrow, the grief, the tears and the heartbreaking grief and loneliness that come to a family when a mother has lost her eldest son and a young bride has lost her bridegroom. So I know that Jack will never...
...progressed through France's heavily leftist south, local Communists, augmented by busloads of comrades from afar, took over key positions along his route and at prearranged signals waved red flags and chanted admiring slogans. In Marseille, where the shouts were loudest, Khrushchev Son-in-Law (and Izvestia Editor) Alexei Adzhubei admiringly remarked to Soviet Propaganda Boss Leonid Ilyichev: "Comrade, you always handle the Agitprop well!" Spiking the Canon. Clicking away insatiably, Soviet cameramen captured scenes of enthusiasm designed to convince movie audiences behind the Iron Curtain that all France had embraced Nikita...
...look up for the owner, a short shake, and then onward. Behind him came friendly, roly-poly Mme. Nina Petrovna Khrushchev in black astrakhan coat and pillbox hat, her arms full of orchids. The rest of the family trooped in afterward-Daughters Julia, Rada and Elena, Son Sergei and Son-in-Law Alexei Adzhubei, editor of Izvestia. It was the first time since 1896 that a Russian ruler had visited Paris. It turned out that Khrushchev's target was the same as Czar Nicholas II's-Germany...
...commercial; last week Actress Shelley Winters called him a "method announcer," explained: "You really internalize your material." Murmurs Hugh: "If it isn't right taste-wise, I change it." His appeal to women is vast. Although a critic has said that "he looks like everybody's son-in-law, very sincere and stunningly good at nothing," a typical fan letter from Utica, N.Y. said: "Hugh Downs is what we older women think of as the ideal American...