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...boys' Jewish parents, however, had relatives, and they wanted Robert and Gerald as badly as Mile. Brun did. First, a sister of Dr. Finaly's wrote from New Zealand, asking that the children be sent to her. Then, in 1949, a mandate from the Finaly kin was presented in a French court. It asked that the boys be sent to another aunt, Mme. Hedwige Ressner, now living in Israel...
...others: Kentucky's Henry Clay (29) and Virginia's Armistead T. Mason (28). *No kin to Henry Wallace's 1948 party of the same name...
...Must be the name of some guy who was mean to me when I was a kid." This is right most of the time. But every now & then, doctors have a case in which a patient has no memory for names at all-not even the names of close kin. It may get so bad that he forgets the names of common articles, so that when he wants a pen he will ask for "something to write with," though he can pick the right name out of a list. Nerve specialists have given this complaint a number of names...
...Taft, 1876-77), a grandnephew of Napoleon (Charles Joseph Bonaparte, 1906-09), and a great-uncle of Herbert Brownell. The great-uncle (on his mother's side) was William Henry Harrison Miller, an eminent Indiana lawyer. Miller was named for President William Henry Harrison (although he was no kin), then was the law partner, political adviser and Attorney General (1889-93) of William Henry's grandson, President Benjamin Harrison One of Miller's Cabinet mates was Secretary of State John W. Foster, grandfather of John Foster Dulles...
...scenes of desolation. Dozens of bodies and thousands of head of livestock floated dead on the floodwaters. Norfolk, the hardest hit, was first to report high casualties-17 bodies found floating on the flood waters at Felixstowe, scores of other deaths-including at least nine U.S. servicemen and their kin from the East Anglian bomber base in Hunstanton. On the west of Britain, the storm took 128 in one blow when it swamped and sunk the ferry Princess Victoria on the run from Stranraer, Scotland toward Northern Ireland...