Word: brotherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full marks as a storyteller and cartoonist. Beyond that, Stone seemed content to remain a lady's man (despite his baggy-kneed appearance) and to join the boys in downing mountain dew. Finally the spinster head of the art department took alarm, wrote to Ed's brother Hicks, an architect in Boston and 14 years Ed's senior: "This boy has divine talent. If you don't take him away from here and put him in school, it's a crime, and you're a wicked...
Died. George S. Long, 74, dentist, Democratic Congressman (since 1953), Brother of Louisiana's onetime Governor Early Long and present Governor Earl Long, uncle of Senator Russell Long; of a coronary thrombosis; in Bethesda...
Died. Frederic Herbert Maugham, 91, onetime (1938-39) Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, elder brother of Novelist Somerset Maugham; in London...
...always a problem; Mike Todd's personal finances, like an anesthetist's bag, alternately puffed and collapsed. Fifty years or so ago in Minnesota, when he was Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen, son of a Polish rabbi, the family was poor. But before he was 20, he and his brother Frank had made and lost nearly $1,000,000 in Chicago real estate ventures. His later success as a Broadway producer ("I believe in giving the customers a meat-and-potatoes show. Dames and comedy") brought in big money almost as fast as Todd...
...After Duty. In Rochester, Ward-will and Herbert Benzing, 74 and 76, gathered to celebrate brother Joseph's goth birthday, postponed the party until evening because brother Albert, 86, could not take the day off from work...