Word: sons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wandering dazedly through New Jersey's port town of Perth Amboy, Shane O'Neill, 39, son of tormented Playwright Eugene O'Neill, proved to have torments of his own in the ill-starred family tradition. Hauled in by sympathetic cops, unemployed Family Man (four children) O'Neill, twice committed to public hospitals in the past for dope addiction, was carrying on him a large bottle of amphetamine pills, a prescription drug sometimes used by former addicts to curb their craving for stronger fixes. Rapped $55 for not having a narcotics user's identity card...
...needed a full-time editor and a broader appeal. A year later he found the right man: Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, a 23-year-old, ninth-generation New Englander. Gilbert Grosvenor married Bell's daughter, ran and built the Magazine for the next 55 years, and left his son to take over after he retired...
...months afterward, Cannon seemed to accept the defeat. Then, late last April, the name of State Representative Bedford Black vanished from the news columns of the Kannapolis daily Independent (circ. 10,950). Cannon owns the Independent building and the ground it stands on, and his son-in-law owns a controlling interest in the paper...
...son of a gifted Bolivian pianist, Jaime was reading music by the time he was four, received a violin when he was six and tuned it without help, correctly pointing out that the family piano was flat. The Laredos sold their house in Bolivia, finally settled in Philadelphia, where Jaime attended Curtis Institute of Music and studied with famed Teacher Ivan Galamian. In his rare public appearances Jaime astounded critics with his virtuoso technique and sweetly purling tone (TIME, May 21, 1956). "If you closed your eyes," wrote one critic, "it could have been Busch and Serkin...
Bill Woodhouse, 22, hardly looks like a sprinter. Heavily muscled, short-legged, and packing 150 Ibs. on a 5-ft. 8-in. frame, he is often mistaken for a weight thrower by track fans. But this year he is making Abilene Christian forget about Morrow. Son of a Mason City, Iowa, railroad switchman, Woodhouse was a promising sprinter in high school, was given a scholarship sight unseen from Abilene Christian. When he arrived, Coach Oliver Jackson got a shock. "When he got off that train." Jackson recalls. "I said to myself that if he ever ran as fast...