Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind Smith from bow up are Henry Erhard, Art Hall, George Hall, Julian Roosevelt, Dave Clark, Bill Evarts, and Bill Dowd with Clark, Dowd, and the Hall twins the two-year veterans. The Halls' older brother, Howland, is the man Smith must replace. Taking over the tiller ropes this year is Charles Kregar...
Happy Birthday. Last week, on Best's 52nd birthday, the trial ended. His sister Louise, a Methodist missionary teacher who had come up from Brazil, gave him a box of chocolates. His brother Aaron, principal of a Durham, N.C. high school, gave him a carton of cigarettes...
Four hours later, as Robert Best stood with his hands clasped behind him, the jury pronounced him guilty. Louise Best threw an arm around her brother's shoulder. "Don't worry about me, madame," he said. "You are now the sister of a convict." His sentence could be as low as five years in prison and a $10,000 fine, or as high as death...
Wedgwood was primarily a businessman with an inventor's mind; it was almost an accident that he also had an artist's eye. He never got beyond the three Rs in school; when he was 14 he went to work for an elder brother as a potter's apprentice. On his own, he began a series of experiments, continued for the rest of his life, with new combinations of clay, flint and bone, new firing methods and temperatures, and new glazes. Smallpox cost him a leg, but that gave him all the more time to meditate...
...become Novelist Julian Green, an expatriate American who has written his moody psychological novels in French. Sister Anne Green, who never married, has also spent her life in France but writes her deft, frothy novels in English. With engaging candor and none of the moodiness of her famed brother, she tells in With Much Love the story of the family's first 21 years in France. Few books of family reminiscences have been written with such obvious joy and communicate so much of it to the reader...