Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William Carpender ("Crazy Willie") Stevens, 70, codefendant with Brother Henry, Sister Frances, in the famed Hall-Mills murder trial of 1926; eleven days after Sister Frances' death; in New Brunswick, N.J. The three defendants were acquitted of the Lovers' Lane murder of the sister's husband, the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, and his paramour, Mrs. Eleanor Mills. "Willie," a large, pudgy, fuzzy-haired, simple-minded bachelor who liked to wear a fireman's helmet and hang around the firehouse, was counted on by the prosecution to spoil the defense's case when he testified...
...very much interested in your article regarding the 19th Heavy Bombardment Group (TIME, Dec. 7) because I learned more about the activities of my brother during the past year than I have from any other source. My brother, Sergeant Russell I. Huffman of Highwood, Mont. . . . is the most decorated enlisted man in the 19th...
...People who insist on maintaining short hours should read your story about what the men of the 19th have been through and then spend a few minutes in serious thought. I might also mention one letter written by my brother on Aug. 7 (just eight months after Pearl Harbor) in which he stated that during that eight-month period he had had only four days off from combat flying and during those four days he was on duty at the flying field...
...leftist. The man who urged the British to "cut down the decaying wood of the House of Lords before it falls upon us" is descended from Sire Crispe de Stanlake, a 13th-century Buckinghamshire squire, Sir Stafford's father and two uncles were peers (Parmoor, Passfield, Courtney). His brother, Freddie, married the Duchess of Westminster...
...Shall we start, pilgrims . . . Yeah! Yeah! ... by taking the people of Harlem, pilgrims . . . Yeah! Yeah! ... up the long stairway to heaven, pilgrims. Yeah! Yeah! Preach that word brother...