[lit-ideas] Forbes Family

Here is an entry that I plan to insert in my blog,
<http://samsara.law.cwru.edu/blog>, later today.


I learned something listening to the Democratic convention last night:
that John F. Kerry's middle name is Forbes and that he is, indeed, a
Forbes on his mother's side.

But that inevitably raises the question: is he a Long-Tailed Forbes or
a Short-Tailed Forbes?

A Google search was not able to answer this question although it makes
it quite clear that the late Malcolm Forbes---the publisher---was not
related to Kerry's family, who made their money the old-fashioned way 
in the China trade and by smuggling opium during the opium wars.


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Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
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