Word: son-in-law
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Such a conflict is not visible in the effective supporting cast, however. Norman Field could not be better in a character part as the gray flannel son-in-law. He does a limited job perfectly. June Walker whines and hobbles skillfully as the girl's mother, and Nancy Pollock puts the right possessive touches into her acting of the hero's sister. Sylvia Davis and Ethel Britton handle comic roles well, even if the exaggeration is not always useful. One of them, as a cowlike neighbor, seems to emit, "I mean, what the hell" every minute...
Died. Antony Beauchamp, 39, society photographer, son-in-law of Sir Winston Churchill, husband of Sarah Churchill since 1949; by his own hand (an overdose of sleeping pills); in London...
Jacopo lived simply in Bassano. He cultivated herbs, played the flute, trained all four of his sons to be painters. Since they all used the name Bassano, as well as Jacopo's father, a son-in-law, a grandson and great-grandson, it took a few centuries to sort out Jacopo's work from the rest of the family's. When Jacopo died in 1592, he had only one regret. "I am sorry to die," he murmured, "because death prevents me from learning my craft all over again...
Brand-new grandparents Harry and Bess Truman journeyed from Independence, Mo. to Manhattan's Doctors Hospital, on the way acquired a baseball and glove for their just-arrived grandson, Clifton Truman Daniel, first child of their daughter Margaret and New York Timesman son-in-law Clifton Daniel. Asked if he hoped the baby would grow up to be President, the ex-Chief Executive said he wouldn't wish that on anybody, later gave a no-nonsense description of the young Democrat: "It looks like all babies two days...
...borrowed heavily from Parkman, the largest loan coming in 1847, when he had mortgaged all his personal property for a loan of $2000. Included in the property listing was Webster's fine collection of minerals. The next year, still in need of money, he approached Parkman's son-in-law, Shaw, and offered to sell him the collection for $1200. Shaw had no use for a mineral collection, and told Webster so, but he felt such sympathy for the professor that he bought the collection, unaware that it was mortgaged to Parkman...