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Some of the other men who served under John Kennedy left Washington years ago, iridescent with the celebrity of Camelot, and found a measure of fortune. Dean Rusk stayed on to work for Lyndon Johnson. Rusk was never exactly part of the New Frontier's clan anyway; he was taciturn, stubborn, spartan, undeniably intelligent, distrustful of personal publicity, given to seven-day work weeks at the State Department...
Died. Dr. Otto Warburg, 86, member of the famed international banking clan who turned to biochemistry and twice won the Nobel Prize; of pneumonia; in West Berlin. Warburg's first Nobel was in 1931 for his pioneering research into the nature of the respiratory enzyme; his second came in 1944 for equally basic studies of cancer. While Hitler forbade the scientist of Jewish descent from accepting the prize, he did permit Warburg to continue working because of his own dread of the disease...
...Americans as the Corrigans of Philadelphia-"a wealthy tribe of shanty Irish, they'd take the sweat from the poor dead Jesus." Principato, the beleaguered hero of this hilarious novel, finds out about the Corrigans the hard way by marrying Cynthia, the barge-footed only daughter of the clan. Battening off a string of funeral homes and ghetto bars, his in-laws scheme constantly within a parochial Jansenist world of indulgences and spiritual bouquets. For them, a family's social status is measured by the number of priests and nuns it has produced...
...week ago Cleveland was the site of a gathering of the clan- or rather, a gathering of two clans. The Sheraton-Cleveland is a large, expensive hotel. Its lobby is not much different from the lobbies of the other hotels in this county where rich people stay. This particular night, the Grand Ballroom was being rented by the Cuyahoga-Lake Division of the Ohio Republican Finance Committee. The purpose was a $250-a-plate dinner to raise money for the Republicans. The featured speaker was the Vice-President of the United States...
Among Greece's great shipping families, intermarriage is something of a tradition like the champagne launching, a notable exception, of course, being Aristotle Onassis' second marriage to John Kennedy's widow. Now rumor has it that Jackie, as clan matriarch, has come to the U.S. to implore her stepdaughter Christina Onassis, 19, not to break up her romance with shipping heir Petros Goulandris...