Word: scions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flashback. Scion of an Army-officer family, the Shah was born in 1876 in the Firuzkuh district east of Teheran. Iran was Persia then; and in the '80s Russia, which had steadily picked off Persia's northern provinces, conspicuously strengthened her position at Teheran by organizing under Tsarist officers the Persian Cossack Brigade, most effective military force in the country. This rough & tough outfit Reza, a youngster of 24, joined as a trooper...
...their country." - The Millville, N.J. Board of Trade banqueted well-paunched Defense Commissioner Leon Henderson, elected him, as a native son, No. 1 Citizen for 1940 of Millville (pop.: 14,705). - Day after he had married 34-year-old Amelia Orr Ronin in Ensenada, Mexico, Thomas Fortune Ryan II, scion of the banking and mining empire, awoke and found that his third bride had vanished. He proceeded to Los Angeles, took a bridal suite, waited two days before the bride returned. Groaned veteran Playboy Tommy: "I don't know when the honeymoon ended, but it's over...
...except that the hat was "non-standardized." Last week the question was answered. In Manhattan Mrs. Roosevelt emerged from a final fitting at Arnold Constable's in a staid ensemble of neon purple and violet, a purple hat (see cut). - Soon after dimpled, 35-year-old Tobacco Scion Richard Joshua Reynolds Jr. lent Democratic campaign committees some $300,000 last year, he found himself treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. Last week Neophyte Reynolds' political career advanced another step when fellow North Carolinians put him up for mayor of Winston-Salem. - As London's famed, 300-acre...
Married. Genevieve Garner, 18, only granddaughter of ex-Vice President John Nance Garner, onetime black-eyed queen of Virginia's Apple Blossom Festival; and John James Currie Jr., Panhandle ranching scion; as Cactus Jack, hampered slightly by recent dental alterations, beamed from the family pew; in Amarillo...
...year-old Baron had flown repeatedly over Germany as a bomber navigator. A friend guessed that Lord Lloyd's death might have been hastened by an old infection from which Lloyd suffered during World War I while serving with Lawrence in Arabia. Prime Minister Winston Churchill named Brewery Scion Walter Edward Guinness, first Baron Moyne, to succeed Lloyd both as Colonial Secretary and as Leader in the Lords...