Word: son-in-law
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Robert ("Buncombe Bob") Reynolds, 60, delivered his swan song looking jaunty and well-preserved in a loud-checked shirt and playboy bow tie. North Carolina's junior Senator, now the son-in-law of Washington's wealthy Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, had decided last spring not to seek a fourth term. Said Buncombe Bob: "I have often referred to myself as an isolationist. . . . I merely employed the term because those who attempted to smear us for trying to keep this country out of the war used that word. . . . We are winning this war. . . . Russia could not have...
...China-Burma-India Theater (TIME, Nov. 13), heard with pleasure that his name was still active there. In a campaign he had planned, his son, Colonel Joseph W. Stilwell Jr., infantryman, West Pointer ('33), received the Legion of Merit for "meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services" in the Hukawng and Mogaung Valleys. In command of a Mars Task Force unit spearheading the advance on Mandalay was his son-in-law, Colonel Ernest F. Easterbrook, infantryman, West Pointer...
Advice to Corporals. Husky, long-chinned Major General Andrew Bruce had pulled his 77th (Statue of Liberty) Division back from the lines to the beaches of Leyte Gulf. On the grey sands, Krueger reviewed the force-including his son-in-law. Colonel Aubrey D. Smith, commanding the 306th Regiment. Said Father-in-Law Krueger: "I want every corporal to realize that he commands an army just as I do, except that mine is a bigger army." Then the men marched up the ramps of waiting LCIs...
...born widow of multimillionaire Miner Sir Harry Oakes, appeared socially (at the opera in Philadelphia) for the first time since her husband was found murdered in July 1943. She pronounced Philadelphians "good, sound, solid people," planned to depart soon for her first journey to the Bahamas since her son-in-law, Alfred de Marigny, was acquitted of the unsolved murder there...
...Ecole de Physique was the first break in the Nazi wooing of French scientists. He was imprisoned for two months, but released after protest riots in which several students were killed. The underground helped him to escape from house arrest at Troyes and cross the border. His son-in-law, Jacques Solomon, was among the organizers (all of whom were shot by the Nazis) of the clandestine scientific journal, L'Université Libre...