Word: grandnephew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lacroix to change careers. "It really reawakened my passion for clothes," says Lacroix. Showing some sketches around in Paris, he found work easily, first at Hermes, then at Guy Paulin. In 1981 the call came from Patou, where control of the firm had just passed to Jean de Mouy, grandnephew of the original designer and the third generation of his family to run the business. De Mouy was all of 29 and determined "to see that, three generations after me, it is still a family house." His plan: install a designer who would restore the house to the pinnacle...
...such as Gerardo di Nola in Castellammare di Stabia, about a 40-minute drive south of Naples. One of Italy's largest producers of premium pasta, it is a bright and airy factory where the starchy aroma suggests tons of boiling pasta. The current president, Gerardo Ronza, is a grandnephew of Gerardo di Nola, who founded the company in 1870. A slender, precise man who lives in an antiques-filled apartment over the factory, Ronza savors the lore and history of his product. Everything made downstairs, he explains, comes under the heading of pasta ascuitta, the dried forms...
Roosevelt, the great grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1870, and great grandnephew of Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04, marched from a Washington, D.C., prep school through Harvard and then through the Law School, graduating this spring...
...Balmoral was idyllic, but Prince Charles' choice of summer reading decidedly was not. On a recent afternoon during the royal family's annual holiday at their Scottish castle, Charles was snapped as he pored over Victims of Yalta, a grim account by Nikolai Tolstoy (Leo's grandnephew) of the forced repatriation of 2 million Soviet P.O.W.s by Britain and the U.S. after World War II. One Fleet Street scribe joked that between the covers the book might really be The Thousand and One Lusty Nights of Fifi...
...famine at International Harvester has come after years of plenty. Founded in 1831 by Cyrus McCormick, the inventor of the first mechanical reaper, the company was directed primarily by the McCormick family until 1977. But Chairman Brooks McCormick, Cyrus' great-grandnephew, then admitted that the firm had become "stodgy." Said McCormick two months before his retirement as chief executive officer: "We've been a slumbering giant. We need a shake-up and a darned good...