Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grandview, Mo. airport to meet him were his mother, who had been in bed with a cold, his brother, Vivian, and his sister, Mary Jane Truman. Visitors were banned. After a night in Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel, the presidential party drove some 50 miles to 97-year-old William Jewell College at Liberty...
...last week Big Ed was trammeled and sad. In fact, he was kidnaped. While Chicago's press whooped with an enthusiasm mislaid since the Capone era, brother George Jones flew in from Mexico to round up a reported $250,000 in ransom money. Automatically, city officials began another cleanup of unprotected policy peddlers. From the North Shore to Bronzeville, the Negro heartland, the kidnaping was poolroom talk...
...Theodore Roosevelt Jr. declared that she wished the remains of her husband (Quentin's brother) to lie at Ste. Mère-Eglise in Normandy. Said Mrs. George S. Patton: "I feel soldiers should stay where they fall. . . . General Patton . . . would always have wanted to have been buried with his men." Mrs. Simon Bolivar Buckner, whose husband was killed in action at Okinawa, expressed the same thought. So did Mrs. Clara Jane Hawkins, mother of the Marine lieutenant for whom Tarawa's airfield is named, and the young widow of another Marine hero, Sergeant John Basilone who died...
More than one returning serviceman has come back to find himself his brother's keeper or vice versa. CRIMSON presidents have barked at candidates who used to be their topkicks, proctors and even deans have cautioned former class-mates, but not many of these relationships are likely to cause as much stir as the one involving Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'38, recently appointed associate professor of History, and recipient of several noteworthy kudos, including a Pulitzor Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship...
Harvard won two events and that was about all it did the whole afternoon. Willo Fisher won the hammer throw with 153 feet 6 1/2 inches, brother Jack, surprisingly, being out of the money. Pete Harwood went up to 12 feet 6 inches to win the pole vault, while Owen Torrey cleared 12 feet, his best mark of the season, to tie with John Barrow of Navy for second place...