Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prussian immigrants, Charley was brought up in Virginia City, Nev., where his father ran a dry-goods store. It was a brilliant family. His sister Miriam was a successful novelist. His brother Albert became one of the world's great physicists, whose measurements of the speed of light won him the Nobel Prize in 1907, and helped Einstein develop the theory of relativity. Albert once candidly remarked that Charley was the most brilliant of them...
...Ruth Foster Froemming, 50, a former Ziegfeld Follies girl, filed for mayor of Milwaukee. Her slogan: "Every church your temple, the world your country, and every man your brother." Said she: "I'm not hell bent on winning...
Divorced. By Ann Sothern, 38, cinema's blowzy, blousy "Maisie": second husband Robert Sterling, 31, B-picture kid-brother type; after four years, seven months of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...
...speaking lines, of a sort. They were spoken very sharply and very fast at a World's Fair ride called the Meteor Speedway. The lines began: "A-thrill-a-second-a-mile-a-minute-around-the-walls-of-an-upright-BOWL! . . . Come on, brother . . . defy the laws of gravity! . . ." Shortly before the venture folded, Peck took a job ushering tourists around Rockefeller Center, where his performances were no more outstanding. Until he learned better, he innocently assured other eager outlanders that Brooklyn was a part of New Jersey. He once fell asleep in a box while his charges outstayed...
...virile 6 ft. 3 in., he can suggest, if the plot demands it, a man who is delicate, ill, or even morally weak. Peck appeals, as a very popular male star must, to both bobby-soxers and their mothers. He manages this feat without presenting himself as a big brother, as a cute, asexual nephew, or as a sophisticated porch climber. Men also immediately like him and wish him well; they feel that he is, in fact, an average human being-luckier, better looking and more gifted than they, but essentially one of themselves...