Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lopping the Heads. Davis, an amateur administrator, left administration to his assistants: Associate Director Milton S. Eisenhower, longtime Government career man and brother of General Dwight D. Eisenhower; Gardner Cowles Jr., onetime president of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, now head of OWI's domestic branch; gangling Robert Sherwood, playwright, collaborator on Franklin Roosevelt's speeches and head of OWI's overseas branch...
...play does not even do justice to her extraordinary obsessing family. There was her father, old Lyman Beecher, bellowing salvation from his pulpit. There was her brother Henry Ward, heaving fashionable bricks from his. There were six other preacher brothers, a whalebone-and-woman's rights sister Catherine, an empty-pursed absent-minded professor of a husband, a batch of noisy kids. Uncle Tom, according to the play, got written with the house all Topsy-turvy. In the midst of Harriet's fame, cooks fired up and gave notice, a son got wounded in the war his mother...
Died. Akilles Jarvinen, Olympics decathlon record-breaker in 1932, member of Finland's No. 1 family of athletes; of accident injuries; in Helsinki. Father Werner was Finland's first Olympics champion, won the Greek style discus throw in 1906; Brother Matti threw the javelin for an Olympics record in 1932; Brother Kaarlo is a famed shotputter...
...visit Harvard in any official capacity. However, she took time out to visit K'ung's rooms at 43 Linnaean Street here, and to have lunch with him. The entire visit was kept secret, and K'ung, son of the Chinese Finance Minister, Mme. Chiang's brother, explained that he could not discuss details of the trip...
Slender, dark-haired Brooks Emeny's restrained manner conceals a burning intensity of purpose. Married to the former Winifred Rockefeller (granddaughter of William Rockefeller, brother of John D.), he lives unostentatiously in swankily suburban Shaker Heights, firmly believes that 40 councils like Cleveland's could knock isolationism into a cocked...