Word: kins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hobby of collecting rare books and manuscripts. He can also afford to leave his practice now and then for spells of public service as an operator in international dark corners-a specialty that traces back to his wartime service as legal counsel to "Wild Bill" Donovan (no kin), head of the cloakand-dagger Office of Strategic Services. After the war, Donovan served on the U.S. legal staff at the war-criminal trials in Nurnberg, later helped draft the legislation setting up the Central Intelligence Agency...
...remote from Madison Avenue in spirit as they are in miles are Philadelphia's N.W. Ayer & Son and its chairman, candid Harry Albert Batten, 65. Born four blocks from Ayer's 13-story headquarters on West Washington Square, Batten (no kin to B.B.D. & O.'s Co-Founder George Batten) still lives only eleven blocks from the office and walks to work each morning. His agency, an envied enigma in the industry, shuns the spectacular for quiet craftsmanship, e.g., its 23-year-old "A diamond is forever" campaign for De Beers, and selects its clients with as much...
...second act; Jackie tried to fill him in, but he still spent much of his time studying his program, later gamely asserted that the musical was "very good." To avoid hurt feelings over the seating, Ethel Kennedy made most everyone feel "in" by scattering the Kennedys and their kin throughout the 1,681 seats-even up in the $15 second balcony...
...kin to Virginia Democrat Harry Flood Byrd...
...Family? Nehru's own personal favorites in the succession sweepstakes are said to be his daughter, Indira Gandhi, 44, widow of Congress Party Backbencher Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma), and acerbic, West-baiting Defense Minis ter Krishna Menon, 65. Nehru envisions his daughter, who is his closest confidante, as a stopgap Prime Minister who could keep India on an even keel until the Congress Party chose a permanent successor...