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...greatly enjoyed your story of Los Angeles and the Otis-Chandler-Times influence. But who added the asterisky comment "No kin to the elevator people...
...U.S.N., ret. (1947), skipper of the World War II aircraft carrier Lexington, and the last to leave her before she finally sank (May 8, 1942) in the Battle of the Coral Sea; of a heart ailment; in San Diego. A World War I submarine commander, "Ted" Sherman (no kin to his fellow admiral, the late Forrest Sherman) learned to fly at 47, took command of the Lexington in 1940. A cool leader under fire, he was a hard-hitting senior task-group commander within the Fast Carrier Task Force, in one four-month period destroyed 350 enemy aircraft, 46 enemy...
...Younger brother of promising Pro Jay, 34, Cajun kissing kin to Louisiana's Congressman F. Edward...
...talent is as an entertainer, and he has the fragility of his frivolity. Perhaps he could best be ticketed as an American P. G. Wodehouse. His Mame-brained characters with their vestigial memories of wealth and lineage are certainly kin to those of the great master of total piffle. Tanner's trade is boom-escapism; the preferred temperature for hatching one of his books is a Dow-Jones average of 500 or better. Satisfied holders of Auntie Mame can look forward to a fat stock dividend, which Tanner expects to declare on next spring's publishing list. Auntie...
...named because a young lady named Margaret Truman (no kin to Mrs. Cliftpn Daniel), who knitted the uniform socks, decided that the boys would look nice in red. -The nickname lasted until the era of Joe McCarthy-the late Senator, not the great New York Yankee manager. Then, patrioteering owners with an ear for public opinion and rustlings among the Reds ruled that their ball club should be called the Redlegs...