Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prepared." Folke Bernadotte, nephew of King Gustav of Sweden, was raised in a thoroughly Lutheran home. Because of his marked musical talent, he was forced to play the organ during the family's daily religious services. He disliked this as much as his enforced attendance at his mother's sewing circle...
...heard the news. He ran to his mother, who took the news with outward calm; she had feared for weeks that her husband would be killed. Quietly she went to call her elder son, who was away at school. Soon the whole family assembled. King Gustav heard of his nephew's death as he was returning from his summer vacation; the old King wept. In Paris, U.N. delegates heard the news as they were getting ready for this week's General Assembly...
Contemplating all this, the cynical wondered if Earl wasn't booby-trapping himself. His nephew Russell had been left a priceless heritage: he looked and acted like Huey. The sight of Russell up on the stump "just like his daddy" stirred the faithful as Earl could never stir them; Russell had gotten more applause than Earl at Earl's own inauguration. Moreover, Russell was smart, personable, well-educated and had a good war record. He was a comer...
...cried that he and Huey had settled their differences before the Kingfish died. At first this was a little embarrassing. One night Earl said: "Of course I disagreed with him sometimes, as a brother does." A voice from the crowd said: "We didn't." But Earl drafted his nephew Russell, and Russell told doubters: "The family is satisfied-I think that should satisfy...
Marriage Revealed. Allan S. Lehman, 63, banker and nephew of New York's onetime Governor Herbert H. Lehman; and Ann Roche Marshall, 45, fire battalion chief's daughter and Lehman's longtime friend; each for the second time; in Manhattan, one day after his divorce (after 36 years) from Evelyn Schiffer Lehman, to whom he paid a reported $3,500,000 settlement...