sentences:  His father, Edward Tinsley "Ned" Chase (1919–2005), was a Princeton-educated Manhattan book editor and magazine writer.His mother, Cathalene Parker (née Browning; 1923–2005), was a concert pianist and librettist whose father, Admiral Miles Browning served as Rear Admiral Raymond A. Spruance's Chief of Staff on the aircraft carrier USS "Enterprise" (CV-6) at the Battle of Midway in World War II.Cathalene was adopted as a child by her stepfather, Cornelius Vanderbilt Crane, heir to The Crane Company, and took the name Catherine Crane.