Word: brother-in-law
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Lusty old Lazar M. Kaganovich, wartime commissar for transport, reputedly Stalin's brother-in-law, made toast after toast, in loud, rambling, unguarded speeches. Toasting "the great friendship of the Soviet peoples," he ran down the list of Soviet nationalities: "Tadzhiks, Uzbeks, Kazakhs...
...Overseas Press Club luncheon in Manhattan, snow-topped Poet Carl Sandburg, in town for a photography exhibition staged by his brother-in-law, famed Cameraman Edward Steichen, told the icwsmen why Steichen's good health is unlikely to wane soon; "Steichen was 76 last April, and he will be 77 next April-my present age. That's the Crapshooter's number, which you're sure to live through...
...also plain that young Germans are not eager to get into uniform; most are at best indifferent, willing to serve but not anxious to volunteer. Said one German before a Cologne youth forum: "My whole family was at the front in the last war: my father and my brother-in-law. Our family was bombed out. Now I ask you why I should become a soldier. I have no one to defend...
...Elgin Hour, Massa Robert Cummings tried valiantly to save his old plantation from a flood, keep his ex-waitress wife at home, and bail out his amoral brother-in-law who had a tendency to shoot upstate troopers. On NBC's Lux Video Theater, there was plenty of hysteria mixed in with the wisteria as Massa Zachary Scott kept mooning about the veranda of his columned home while trying to make up his mind between a daughter of the Old South and a Northern hussy. On Robert Montgomery Presents, Paul McGrath played a Yankee who couldn't choose...
...backstop the first team, whose toughest job will be to block the expected drive for Chinese Communist membership in the U.N., the President also named five alternates, including re-appointments for James J. Wadsworth, brother-in-law of Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, and Mrs. Oswald Lord, 1952 co-chairman of the Citizens for Eisenhower. The three new alternates: Wright Francis Morrow, 61, wealthy Houston lawyer who backed the Texas Democrats for Eisenhower; Ade M. Johnson, 58, director of labor and industry in the state of Washington; Roger Williams Straus, 62, a New York industrialist (American Smelting & Refining...