Word: son-in-law
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...fourth day, Calhoun's wife, worried because she had not heard from him, phoned her father. Stevens got his Caracas office on his son-in-law's trail. Next day, at the U.S. embassy's insistence, Calhoun was released-and escorted by armed guards to a U.S.-bound plane...
Died. Count Nobuaki Makino, 88, Japan's liberal elder statesman and longtime adviser (Keeper of the Privy Seal, 1925-35) to Emperor Hirohito; in Tanaka, Japan. Forced out by the militarists, he made a comeback after V-J day, exerting potent political influence through his son-in-law Premier Yoshida...
Tevye had no trouble marrying his daughters off; the trouble was in getting the right, husbands. When a rich old butcher offered to marry his eldest, Tevye had visions of living off his son-in-law. But instead, his daughter became engaged to a poor young tailor. "What kind of a world has this become?" asked Tevye. "A boy meets a girl and says to her, 'Let us pledge our troth.' Why, it's just too free and easy . . ." But Tevye gave in; he, too, had an eye for love...
...second daughter married a radical, a good talker. Tevye poked fun at his son-in-law's ideas, but when his daughter followed her husband to exile Tevye was secretly proud. "Those daughters of mine -when they fall in love ... it is with their heads and hearts, their bodies and souls...
...Lady," as Arkansans call the state's biggest and most respected daily, in the family. For around $750,000, he bought the Gazette stock (25%) that was not already held by Heiskells. He also named ex-Army Major Hugh B. Patterson Jr., his capable, 33-year-old son-in-law, as his paper's publisher. (Son Carrick Heiskell, an Army pilot, was killed flying the Hump in World...