Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General William S. Graves's expeditionary force en route to Siberia, he was one of a group entertained at a dinner by Jap officers. Eichelberger had seen no combat service in Europe, was short of medals. To keep him from being out-spangled by his Jap hosts, a brother officer insisted on lending him some campaign bars. The Japs were properly impressed...
King of the Cocos. In London, the youngest, strangest royal D.P. of all packed his own bags. He was John Clunies-Ross V, 19, King of the Cocos Islands (TIME, June 11). Ross V has the lean, long countenance of his Scottish seafaring ancestors. His brother favors their Malayan grandmother (a royal Sulu princess in her own right). Their sister manages to look like both of them...
Gracie Hall Roosevelt, Eleanor's late brother, who once proved-to his own satisfaction-that a man could eat on $1.75 a week, left a $278,264 estate but owed more than $37,000 of it. A tax appraisal showed that his Manhattan creditors included the Hotel St. Regis ($101), Monte Carlo nightclub ($46), suburban Arrowhead...
...Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who wrote these words (from jail) to his sister, Krishna. This great & good friend of Mohandas K. Gandhi has spent nearly half of his 55 years in British prisons. Not nearly so familiar is the fact that his entire family-father, mother, two sisters, wife and brother-in-law-have also gone to jail in the cause of India's freedom. Krishna Nehru's brief, informal autobiography provides an intimate introduction to the First Family of Indian passive resistance...
Happy Days. In 1925, soon after Father became President of the Swaraj (Self-Rule) Party, Jawaharlal's wife fell ill and had to be taken to Switzerland. Krishna joined her brother there, and went from one international conference to another as his secretary. "The happiest time I spent was in Switzerland and Paris," she writes. "Often I have wished I could go back to those days and meet old friends again...