Word: son-in-law
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...Friday afternoon in November of 1849 Dr. George Parkman, a widely known philanthropist and instructor at the Medical School, disappeared. A man known for his punctuality and methodically businesslike habits, he had been missed he did not come home for lunch. His son-in-law, Robert Gould Shaw, a leading merchant, offered a $3000 reward for his safe return and on Saturday afternoon had placed advertisements in all the papers and had circulated 8,000 handbills...
Before his interview with Izvestia's Editor Aleksei I. Adzhubei, who is also Khrushchev's son-in-law. President Kennedy made a deliberate decision to speak quietly, without bombast or belligerence. As a result, the two-hour interview, carried nearly verbatim by Izvestia, produced little earth-shaking news. Much of the U.S. press gave it a better front-page display than did Izvestia (see cut),* but President Kennedy was satisfied that he had accomplished his aim of giving the Russian people a reasoned explanation of the U.S. position...
...pregnant, and the boss himself announces that he will arrive in Berlin within 24 hours. Problem: in that one little old puckered-up day that he has left, can Cagney 1) spring the groom from his East German cell, and 2) convert him into a proper sort of son-in-law for Old King Coke...
...such access to the Russian people. But last week the President finally got a chance, and a good one. In the first presidential interview ever granted a Russian newsman, he talked for two hours with Aleksei Adzhubei, who is both editor of Izvestia and Khrushchev's son-in-law...
...been run by Chairman Donald Gilmore, 66, who married the daughter of Founder W. E. Upjohn. (Since Upjohn was married to Gilmore's widowed mother, Gilmore's wife is also his stepsister.) Last week, with his Jan. 1 retirement approaching, Gilmore named his own quietly able son-in-law, Ray Theodore Parfet Jr., 39, as the company's president and chief executive officer. Despite corporate inbreeding, Upjohn has prospered, is now one of the nation's top five ethical drugmakers with record sales of $122 million for 1961's first nine months. Ex-Bomber Pilot...