Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among the attackers: Captain Lawrence Washington, half-brother of George, who later named Mount Vernon for the Admiral...
...Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News Syndicate, marched in to the late Captain Joseph M. Patterson, the P. T. Barnum of the U.S. comic strip. "There's a young chap in my office," she told him, "with a letter from John McCutcheon." Patterson groaned: "What, another fraternity brother?" Said Mollie: "But this is the one who does Dickie Dare" Her sons had sold her on Dickie, and she had given the boss a batch of the strips to look...
Standout performers for Coach Green are the brothers Gale, a pair of huge, talented operatives. Bob, who measures six foot five, was the leading scorer in the Ivy League four years ago, while Jim, an inch shorter, is regarded as just a shade less proficient than his elder brother. These two lads are dwarfed by one Ed Peterson, a six-foot-nine-inch performer who was previously used as a reserve, but may start at center against the Varsity...
...Lisbon, Spanish Pretender Don Juan hit the ceiling of his modest Portuguese hostel. Generalissimo Francisco Franco had propositioned him. The proposition (conveyed by Franco's brother Nicolas, who is Spain's Ambassador to Lisbon): Don Juan's eldest son, 9, should be handed over to the Franco Government to be trained in the principles of "the new Spanish order." Thus the dynasty would serve as a front for Franco, and the princeling would serve as a hostage if the dynasty became troublesome...
Died. Max Warburg, 79, famed international Hamburg banker, brother of Manhattan bankers Paul and Felix Warburg; after long illness; in Manhattan. Though a Jew, he remained in his homeland after Hitler rose to power, devoted himself to aiding and rescuing Jews marked for persecution, finally in 1939 fled to the U.S., in 1944 became a U.S. citizen...