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...kin to Greece's late Dictator John Metaxas...
...confused with Young Dr. Malone, no kin...
...meal and moonshine whisky). Once she had been married-for ten days; but she had driven her husband off with her powerful fists and rasping tongue. But one day a little hunchback with a soft, sassy face comes to town and announces that he is Miss Amelia's kin. To everybody's surprise, she takes him in, and a big change takes place in Miss Amelia. On Sundays she lays aside her overalls and swamp boots and spruces up in a red dress. Her store becomes a little cafe, with hunchback Cousin Lymon hopping about spreading merriment with...
...desire for an orchestra had never died. The problem was to bring the desire and Detroit money together. The man who turned the trick was Industrialist John B. Ford Jr. (no kin to Henry), wartime Navy commander, director of half a dozen Detroit corporations. At first he was reluctant. But at the urging of music-loving Jerome Remick Jr. (whose family once owned Remick Music Corp.), he agreed to "make four phone calls, ask no more than $10,000 from each of the people I call...
...kin to the Revolution's Henry ("Light-horse Harry") Lee, or his son Robert E. Lee. Thirty years later, Lafayette, who did not witness the episode himself, started the story that Washington called Lee a "damned poltroon" on this occasion. Most historians don't believe it. *But later drew on the tactical talents of another warrior of the Revolution, John Paul Jones. In the Russo-Turkish war of 1787-91, Jones was a rear admiral with Catherine's Black Sea fleet, fought in several engagements...