Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Champagne & Talcum. Last week he was genuflecting more vigorously than usual before his brother's memory. He was doing everything in his power to get Huey's 29-year-old son Russell elected to the U.S. Senate. He sent his big, tough-looking Lieut. Governor Bill Dodd out on the road to blast Russell's closest competitor, Judge Robert F. Kennon, who had also had the audacity to oppose Earl for governor last January...
Russell to the Rescue. Earl cried that he and Huey had settled their differences before the Kingfish died. At first this was a little embarrassing. One night Earl said: "Of course I disagreed with him sometimes, as a brother does." A voice from the crowd said: "We didn't." But Earl drafted his nephew Russell, and Russell told doubters: "The family is satisfied-I think that should satisfy...
Like a Board. A lean French Canadian taxi driver, John Lecomte, 36, joined up with his brother-in-law, Einer Frykberg. They left Frykberg's hardware store to his wife, drove Lecomte's taxi in as far as they could, and headed into the bush. Bartender John York hiked 15 miles in & out, then found that he had forgotten to note the numbers of his claim tags. He had to go through it all again...
...half the pieces on exhibition had been seen before at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum (TIME, April 14, 1947), which had never before exhibited a one-man show of a living artist. The rest, all done withinć the past 20 years, had been brought from Yugoslavia by his brother Petar. The hit of the Metropolitan show was a 5½ ton Pieta done in the muscular, dramatically contorted tradition of Michelangelo, and too big to transport to Pittsfield. The Berkshire exhibition emphasized Městrović's carved wooden bas-reliefs and single figures whose intensity made Hungarian...
Born in Alliance, Ohio, Hoiles went to public school because he didn't have any say in the matter, then to a Methodist college. He started work on his older brother's newspaper in Alliance for $2 a week, was making $10,000 a year when they had a falling-out over R.C.'s labor-baiting views. Then R.C. published an anti-union paper in industrial Mansfield, Ohio, sold out (for a profit) after enemies blew up his front porch...