Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howard's letter had hardly been mailed before Brother Charles began telling Italy goodby. For some days, the sergeant had been slated for a furlough. But if young Howard's letter had done nothing else, it had restated a simple American credo. Even in the 28th month of a $312 million-a-day war, the still-unregimented U.S. people believed that people come first. The War Department, taking time out to judge assorted tales of loneliness, sickness and heartache, generally agreed...
...Bulletin's conservatives are not slow. President-Publisher Robert McLean is also president of the Associated Press. Lank, sandy, shy, he gives editors suggestions and a free hand. His brother, William L. Jr., vice president, looks after the money and the newsprint problem, has his hands full of both. Massive, gregarious Richard W. Slocum became general manager six years ago, has worked steadily against the Bulletin's antiquity, toward a fresh approach in civic matters. Dwight S. Perrin, managing editor since 1939, went to the Bulletin after 13 years with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His assistant...
...Supremely unimportant" probabilities: born Harry F. Gerguson in 1890 in 1) Vilna, Russia, or 2) Hillsboro, Ill., or 3) Manhattan's lower East Side. † Other New World Habsburgs: Archduke Otto and youngest brother, Archduke Rodolphe in Washington; Mother Empress Zita and Archduchess Elizabeth Charlotte in Quebec; Archduchesses Adelaide and Charlotte in New York City...
...dispensed from the rule of silence, but like other Trappists he is not allowed to face a newscamera. The guestmaster may also speak (to guests) and the procurator may speak to tradesmen. Any monk can speak to the superior, but if he wishes to communicate with a brother he uses a simplified sign language. Only the abbot can read newspapers, or listen to the radio. If there is some worldly matter he thinks the brothers should know, he can tell them about it. The monks may write relations and receive occasional mail from them...
...right to tell you that we are at (deleted by censor). That is about all I can tell you, though." Dodger. On Kwajalein Atoll, marines prepared to dynamite a stubborn dugout when a Jap ran out yelling, "Don't shoot! I've got a brother in Brooklyn...