Word: grandsons
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...retracing of Author Sheldon's bestseller in terms of the post-World War II U.S. Like its predecessor, it is a composite sermon preached by its cast of characters, many of whom are the children or grandchildren of the characters in In His Steps. Urged by their minister (grandson of Author Sheldon's minister) to emulate Christ, they react to the atomic age much as their grandparents reacted to the times of Grover Cleveland. The local department-store owner builds prayer rooms for his customers and employees and sets up a profit-sharing plan. The newspaper publisher devotes...
...Ph.D. (Harvard and the University of Vienna), the only Negro in his class at DePauw University, where he was valedictorian (and a classmate of David Lilienthal), is the highly paid chief of soyabean research for Chicago's Glidden Co. In that job and earlier, Percy Julian, the grandson of an Alabama slave, had made world-famous chemical discoveries. They ranged from processes for the synthetic manufacture of important body-regulating hormones (e.g., testosterone, progesterone) to a foam fire extinguisher which saved many U.S. naval vessels in World...
Back in Kathmandu, Prime Minister Rana put null grandson, Gyanendra, aged 3, on Nepal's throne. Rebellion against this act broke out here & there, but Rana's government claimed it had things under control...
...Stockholm, Sweden's new King Gustaf VI took the royal oath, announced that his personal motto would be "Duty Above All," with Queen Louise acknowledged the cheers of his subjects. Then the King picked up his tired little grandson, Crown Prince Carl, 4, heir apparent to Sweden's throne, and carried him off to the quiet of his palace room...
Despite his other achievements, the U.N.'s Ralph J. (for Johnson) Bunche, Palestine mediator and 1950 Nobel Peace Prizewinner, likes to list his profession as "educator." At 46, Schoolman Bunche, grandson of a slave, has spent more than half his life on college and university campuses. A graduate of the University of California in 1927 (where he was a crack basketballer), he took his Ph.D. at Harvard. Later, he studied anthropology at Northwestern, The London School of Economics, and Capetown University, finally became professor of government at Howard University in Washington...