Word: stepson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cairns' performance as Treasurer was questioned again last week when the Melbourne Age published documents indicating that his stepson Phillip and associates stood to gain more than $1.4 million in commissions if the government had managed to secure a $2 billion loan from Saudi Arabia. Phillip denied the allegations and there was no suggestion that Cairns himself would have profited in any way. Nonetheless, an angry Whitlam released a letter from Cairns to a friend of his named George Harris, in which the Deputy Prime Minister offered Harris' firm a 2.5% brokerage fee on any overseas loan...
...five editions in his lifetime at a price equivalent to $65 a copy-many thousands of copies a year are still sold today-and won him a comfortable sinecure as commissioner of customs in Edinburgh. He was able to tell his aristocratic former patron, Statesman Charles Peter Townshend (whose stepson he had tutored), that he no longer needed the heavy subsidy that Townshend had been paying him in order to get by. More important than the money were the plaudits of his fellow intellectuals. It was already possible to say, as the British writer and archivist James Bonar...
...previous marriage, Braaten, 11, who had been spending the summer with his mother and stepfather. As he had done successfully several times before, Anderson was attempting to slip across the border to see his mother in Poulsbo, near Seattle; he also planned to put his stepson aboard a train to Spokane, where the boy lives with his father...
...later, the marriage broke up, and mother and child returned to Grand Rapids. In 1916, Dorothy married Gerald R. Ford, a paint salesman, who adopted young Leslie and gave the boy his name?as well as his penchant for hard work, athletics and community involvement. He also instructed his stepson in a certain humility. Remember, he told the boy, someone else can always do the job better than you. The elder Ford, who died in 1962, never prospered as a businessman but established a reputation for character and good works. Says Jerry's half brother Richard:* "Being his son meant...
...stop at Zurich's Kloten Airport and Alexander Solzhenitsyn bounded up the steps of the plane with a bunch of red and white carnations. Minutes later he emerged, carrying in his arms his sons, Yermolai, 3, and Ignat, 17 months. Behind them came his wife Natalya, stepson Dimitri, 12, mother-in-law and youngest son Stepan, six months. Then the Solzhenitsyns drove to their home in exile, a seven-room villa. Deported from Russia in February for publishing in the West his account of Stalinist terror, The Gulag Archipelago, the novelist was concerned that his archives, which he needs...