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...from Iowa. Young Funston had good reason to think so. He was born on Oct. 12, 1910, in Waterloo, Iowa, into a moderately well-to-do family. Later the family moved to Sioux Falls, S. Dak., where his father, George Edwin Funston, owned the International Savings Bank. Funston. an honor student in school and an ardent Boy Scout, seemed to have an assured future until everything changed in 1924. In a bank panic that year, the family wealth was swept away, and Funston, in his freshman year at high school, had to earn money to go to college. He candled...
...fascinating gimmick referred to in the title. The tontine (rhymes with "on green"), a fad which keeps reappearing through history, combines the suspense of the $64,000 question with the finances of the pyramid club. In Costain's tontine, begun in England just after the Battle of Waterloo, people in each of eight age groups enter the setup at 100 guineas a head. The money and interest are invested for 20 years; the interest is split annually among the survivors. As others die, those left behind gleefully rake in more dough until one person takes...
Into the youngest class of the Waterloo tontine went the children of Samuel Car boy and George Grace, two partners whose business marriage has ended in divorce owing to incompatibility. Alongside these wealthy kids, the daughter of Carboy's groom, Nell Groody, also joins. Then Author Costain relentlessly chronicles the lives of these participants, down to the tonteeniest detail. Carboy's daughter works her way through a series of polite flirtations (not a bedroom scene in 930 pages) from baronet's wife to duchess, while Grace's son parlays a naval career into a knighthood. After...
...succeed Republican Howrey as chairman, the White House picked FTCommissioner J. W. Gwynne, 65, who, like Howrey, grew up in Waterloo, Iowa and was appointed to the agency in 1953. A conservative, hard-plugging lawyer and onetime judge who represented Iowa's Third District in Congress for 14 years (until 1948), Republican Gwynne worked closely with Howrey, is expected to keep FTC on its present course...
...beau Wellington," she found tedious, goodhearted, generous. But when the duke spurned her dun ("Publish and be damned"), he too met a different kind of Waterloo. "His Grace," spits Harriette, ". . . has written to menace a prosecution if such trash be published . . . When Wellington sends the ungentle hint to my publisher, of hanging me, beautiful, adored and adorable me, on whom he had so often hung! Alors je pends la tête! . . . Good-bye to ye, old Bombastes Furioso." Then she proceeds to relate how the duke, fresh from his triumphant campaigns in Spain, hurried straight to her house...