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...elective office came in 1938, when he ran for Congress and lost. After that, he served in many political jobs around Trenton, including five years as a Superior Court judge, returning in 1957 to a lucrative law practice in order to support his big family (nine children and stepchildren). When Governor Robert Meyner compiled a list of 26 suitable successors, Hughes was not even on the list. He was finally hand-picked by Democratic Boss Thorn Lord and other party leaders only after several better-known possibilities had declined...
...Kennedy had originally picked to run for the Democrats was his close friend, Congressman Frank Thompson Jr. But Thompson wanted to stay on Capitol Hill, and eventually the choice went to Trenton Lawyer Richard J. Hughes, 51, who last week won his primary easily. Father of six (and three stepchildren) and, like Mitchell, a Roman Catholic, Hughes has capably held two Jersey judgeships. But his political views seem vague, and the charge that he carries water on both political shoulders has won him a nickname: "Two Buckets...
...more or less, with What Is Happening to the Sanctity of the American Divorce. A nice old Massachusetts couple decide to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary with a family reunion. All of their sons and daughters have been divorced at least once, and what with all the stepparents and stepchildren, the affair threatens to become the merriest Old Broken Home Week you ever...
...giving $500,000 to the Kirksville (Mo.) College of Osteopathy and Surgery,* to be spent over ten years, to support a professorship and two fellowships in osteopathic theory and practice. In a separate but by no means coincidental move, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (representing Martha Rockefeller's stepchildren) gave $500,000 to be spread over three years and used mainly for strengthening the faculties of all six U.S. osteopathic schools. The purpose, as defined by Laurance Rockefeller: "To increase still further the substantial contribution the profession now makes to public health...
...Giving in. Washington said: "Very well, Madam, but only if you and your children have your likenesses taken at the same time." As a result, Painter Charles Willson Peale was summoned from Annapolis in May 1772 to paint the hero of the French and Indian War, his wife and stepchildren. Peale's portrait of the 40-year-old Virginia planter in his uniform as a colonel in the Virginia militia, today hanging at Washington and Lee University, has become part of the national heritage...