Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rewarded by command of the party's Brown House headquarters at Munich. His brother, Albert, became Hitler's personal aide. Now, with the threads of Nazi command in his hands, he worked over the lists-1,800 names long-of those to be killed in the 1934 purge. In 1938 he checked off the generals to be ousted...
...auction was on. Cooper, who had staged a salary rebellion with Brother Mort before joining the Navy last spring, got No. 1 priority on the sales list by blabbing that he would never again put on a Cardinal uniform. The Cooper news was hardly out before the Pittsburgh Pirates admitted that, they had put up some $30.000 for the Cards' pepperpot, switch-hitting Second Baseman Jimmy Brown. Other anxious buyers fretted on the Cardinal doorstep...
...Brother Bing, 41, ducked reporters in Manhattan last week. The Groaner had refused to go back on the Kraft Cheese Co.'s Music Hall after his summer vacation; the company claimed that his contract didn't expire until 1950. Bing and his business-managing brothers, Larry and Everett, insisted that the contract was technically dead. And until Der Bingle could name his own terms, including the right to transcribe his programs weeks before they are broadcast, he was deter mined to cheese it. Kraft took its grievance to court...
...Young Brother Bob, 32, returned to the air after 14 months as a marine in the South Pacific. His sponsor: young Henry Ford II, who hoped that Bob, 'with his only faintly Bing-like crooning and corny chatter, could capitalize on Bing's absence, sell young America on postwar Ford convertible sport roadsters...
...sight of blood. He had known about his condition since youth, and took regular slugs of brandy to quiet his nerves. In a cheerful, half-drunk state, he commanded a tank for two months. ¶ A soldier who had suffered tantrums as a child hardened up when his brother was killed at his side. Desire for revenge replaced fear, and he lasted until six tanks were shot from under...