Word: gouverneur
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Invitation to Learning (Sun. 11:35 a.m., CBS). Novelist Helen MacInnes and Gouverneur Paulding discussing Conrad's Lord...
...Chicago chemical engineer who succeeded Bob Little as U.S. military governor, had a Midwesterner's built-in drive to make his city tops. With Lascoe, aloofness was out. He slapped backs all around town, learned to speak fluent German. Because Pforzheimers kowtowed to him as "Herr Gouverneur," he put an ad in the local newspapers: "My title is Mr. Lascoe. Please refrain from use of the word Governor...
...what was left of his life, Gouverneur Morris savored the "conjugal pleasures" which he had only sampled before. A month before he died, at 65, he wrote to a friend that he still felt "the enthusiasms of inexperience and the gaiety of youth...
...Among Morris' direct descendants is great-grandson Gouverneur Morris, novelist and short-story writer. Newbold Morris, recently fired as Harry Truman's special corruption hunter, is a great-great-great-nephew, as is his brother, George L. K. Morris, "concretionist" painter and a onetime editor and angel of the Partisan Review...
...Nancy was kept at her menial work. She was a lot better off the day the self-widowed Mrs. Randolph tired of torturing her and chased her out of the house to earn her own living. Nancy did better than that: she went North, met courtly, wealthy old Gouverneur Morris, and married him-fictionally and in fact...