Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Younger brother of Taft School's Headmaster Paul Cruikshank...
Death Revealed. Langley Collyer, 61, shy Harlem hermit; of asphyxiation, under a pile of debris ten feet from the spot where the body of his blind brother was discovered 17 days earlier (TIME, April 7); in Manhattan. Death came to the recluse, police decided, when he hit a tripwire to one of the booby traps he kept in his rotting mansion to trap thieves, causing a pile of hoarded junk to fall and smother...
...Hall selected two strains of adolescent (35 days old) male mice. One strain was black, the other "dilute brown." Both had been inbred by brother-&-sister matings for many generations, thus making sure that the strains would differ widely in hereditary characteristics, while individual mice within each strain would be almost alike genetically...
...airlines, this winter was one of the worst. On one of its dark days, dour Donald W. Douglas rolled his first postwar plane, the DC-6, out of his Santa Monica plant. A fat-bellied big brother of the famed DC-4, the plane was sold to United Air Lines, Inc. and its boss William Allan Patterson, who looks and sometimes sounds like a small, precise adding machine. Patterson thought that his new buy was a good plane. And his line badly Heeded such a plane. But he had no intention of putting it into service until he was sure...
World War II's boldest plot-that-failed has been reported, but never as fully as in Germany's Underground. Its preliminaries, principals and political aims are now described by Manhattan Lawyer Allen W. Dulles (younger brother of State Department Adviser John Foster Dulles), who was the wartime OSS chief in Switzerland. Obviously Dulles thought the assassination plot of great importance; the OSS in Switzerland had learned of it through "secret channels" long before it came off, repeatedly advised Washington of its importance. But Allied headquarters dismissed the plot as trifling and, says Dulles, "the plotters received...