Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rare when a brother act pays off in sports, but since the end of the war the brothers Foster Adam, Henry, and Hugh--have been the color cards in varsity squash coach Jack Barnaby's hand. The situation may well continue for another year...
...phraseology of most of the letters is identical, saying: "My husband [father, son, brother, nephew, friend, etc.] is a good man but a habitual alcoholic. Please send the drug mentioned in TIME. I enclose a check for . . ." or "send antabus whatever it costs." In undertaking to answer each communication, Dr. Jacobsen has told all of the senders-except physicians and commercial firms-to have their doctors write to him. His position is that antabus medication is a "chemical incarceration" intended to "help alcohol addicts around a dangerous corner," and that in so doing a doctor's advice is needed...
...Fort Lee, N.J., pudgy Nightclubber George Ross, 32, was married to onetime Cinemactress Arline Judge, 36, who has, at one time or another, been married to Director Wesley Ruggles, Sportsman Dan Topping, Ad Executive Vincent Morgan Ryan, R.A.F. Captain James Addams, and Bob Topping, Dan's brother (who is now married to Lana Turner...
Poured Foundations. That kind of big business was nothing new to 42-year-old Bill Levitt. After he got out of the Seabees in 1945, he and brother Alfred, who designs their houses, started building on a semi-mass production basis (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946). They used a huge earth-moving machine to root out foundations, a concrete mixer to move from site to site pouring concrete slabs for house bases (no basements). In 1946 they finished 1,000 homes, sold them to veterans for a shade under...
Mushrooming Houses. The next year, brother Alfred designed a 25 by 30 two-bedroom bungalow to rent for $65 a month. These went over so well that the Levitts bought a 1,000-acre potato farm near Hempstead, L.I., named it Levittown, and started building houses on it at the rate of 150 a week. The houses were neat and trim but so much alike that the development had a barracks-like air. But looks made little difference. By the end of last year they had finished and rented 6,000 houses (Levittown's population...