Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Yale (where he always stood first in his class) and Harvard Law, he and younger brother Charles (now the layman president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America) set up a one-room law office in Cincinnati. The two young Tafts got plenty of business. Uncle Charles owned the Times-Star, and when he died Bob inherited a minority interest in Times-Star stock. He still owns it. Bob declined to join Charles in a fight to reform the corrupt city government; he strung along with the late Boss Rudolph Hynicka, used the machine...
...week age, in their only unofficial outing, the freshman squad made hash of a game JV squad by a 5 to 0 count. The 1946 Andover captain, Rick Hutner, is the offensive star of this year's aggregation, while an Exonian, Clark Cowen, brother of football Bob Cowen, is a standout on defense...
Just before dawn in Peiping's model prison a policewoman called to Yoshiko Kawashima through the barred opening of her cell. But Yoshiko slept soundly. Her cell mate, Mrs. Li, a middle-aged opium smuggler, shook her. Said Mrs. Li in great compassion: "Get up, foolish-elder brother...
Novelist Alec Waugh, balding elder brother of Novelist Evelyn, explained to a Manhattan interviewer how the Waughs kept from tripping over each other. "We made a compact," recalled Alec, "that we wouldn't go to the same countries. . . . He took the Catholic countries-he's Catholic, you know. I took the cricket countries. I like cricket and football." Henry L Mencken, keg-shaped sage of Baltimore, received the press on the occasion of a new supplement to The American Language. He reported that the Baltimore Sun had invited him to report both political conventions this year...
...youngest brother Hugh later beat him by becoming editor of the Sunday Pictorial...