Word: mifflin
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Married. Richard Mifflin Kleberg, 59, lobbyist for hoof & mouth disease control among cattle, former Democratic Representative from Texas, owner of champion horse Assault, and part-owner of 1,250,000-acre King Ranch, world's largest privately owned cattle ranch; and Mamie Searcy Kleberg, 57; both for the second time (she divorced him in 1944 for mental cruelty); at his Washington hospital bedside (he suffered a heart attack three weeks...
...WALLACES OF IOWA (615 pp.)-Russell Lord-Houghton Mifflin...
...FORMATIVE YEARS: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE ADMINISTRATIONS OF JEFFERSON AND MADISON (1,030 pp.)-Henry Adams, condensed & edited by Herbert Agar-Houghton Mifflin...
HENRY ADAMS AND His FRIENDS (797 pp.)-edited by Harold Dean Cater-Houghton Mifflin...
Rumor is that Lowells talk only to Cabots; they have also apparently talked freely to Ferris Greenslet, former Houghton Mifflin editor-in-chief, and granted him permission to quote from family letters and papers. The, result is a short history of ten Lowell generations, down to and including that of the stout, imperious maiden lady who admired Keats and smoked long Manila cigars...