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...George learns that his brother's widow is pregnant by another man. To protect Jeff's good name, he marries her and breaks the heart of true-blue Margaret Carton, who has been patiently waiting for his proposal. George now proceeds to mishandle the affairs of his stepchildren, loses control of his brother's monumental Tower in the West, is chivied out of a lucrative partnership, and is rejected as "too unsavory" for a professorship at Princeton...
...insisted Nehru: "A controversial issue should hardly be discussed at this conference. The conference should discuss general principles." They had not gathered, as diplomats often do, to confirm a common purpose, but to find one. What they were really seeking, said Nehru candidly (and for the moment ignoring the stepchildren from Africa) was the "self-justification of Asia...
Before the end of World War II, seaplanes had become the stepchildren of naval aviation. Here & there a fleet of lumbering PBYs and Martins still put out on patrol, and a few floatplanes were catapulted from cruisers. But the Navy was turning almost exclusively to landplanes when the jet age caught up with naval aviation. Then seaplanes seemed to show promise again, and the waterways that cover more than half the world once more looked like useful airfields...
...French & Indian War, went home to Mt. Vernon. He had fought well; now he could settle down to the life he was meant for, the easy rounds of a well-to-do Virginia planter. He married a comely widow named Martha Custis, took on the responsibility of two stepchildren, and began thinking about improving his estate and buying more land...
Marriage: Married in 1902 at 21 to Elizabeth Carter Coles. She died in 1927. In 1930, he married Katherine Boyce Tupper Brown, a widow. He has no children. One of his three stepchildren, Lieut. Allen Tupper Brown, was killed in action in Italy...