Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard-fisted Vermont pioneer named Albert Arnold Sprague bumped out to Chicago in a covered wagon and went into the grocery trade. With his brother and another Vermonter, Ezra J. Warner, he formed the wholesale house of Sprague, Warner & Co., which grew with lusty young Chicago. Sprague Warner was a pioneer in the packaging of food, and its Richelieu brands became more famous than the hotel for which they were named.* By the time the second Ezra J. Warner died in 1933, Sprague Warner was a far-flung manufacturing and wholesale house, as prestigious as Manhattan's Charles...
Harry Kunin wears a gardenia, its stem in a phial of water. Daily he commutes between Chicago and suburban Highland Park, where he has a landscaped "farm" complete with boat landing but no boat ("You've never seen anything like it outside of the movies," says Brother Max). One day last year Harry Kunin found himself sitting on the train next to chubby-faced young Thomas Charles Dennehy Jr., who had married Founder Warner's granddaughter and got to be Sprague Warner's executive vice president. Tom Dennehy dresses like a farmer, lives in swank Lake Forest...
Only once in The Old Century does war overshadow Sassoon's mellow recollections of his Kent childhood, his nurses, tutors, governesses, Thornycroft relatives, boys' schools. Reminded while revisiting his old village of his brother Hamo, killed at Gallipoli, he muses bitterly over the present "halfhearted renouncement of war," the "heavily armed pursuit of peace." But he quickly decides that "I must give up feeling bad-tempered about it, or I should be ruining my afternoon." For the rest, the War's corpses are peacefully buried. So is his onetime vow to write to "scandalize the jolly...
...when he wrote The Loom of Youth, Alec Waugh was hailed as a promising young writer. All through his 20s he heard the cry repeated. When his younger, sprightlier brother Evelyn (Vile Bodies, Decline and Fall) achieved immediate and continued success, reviewers had not tired of telling readers to watch Alec. Last week, with his thirty-first book, Going Their Own Ways (Farrar & Rinehart $2.50), 40-year-old Alec Waugh was i promising writer still. But it had long been obvious that he would never be as good as his model, John Galsworthy...
...Hawks bench because his 1938 world champions were in fourth place, with only eight victories in 21 games this season (a record that still was better than the Hawks had last year at this time), short, squat Bill Stewart was replaced by two men: his crack forward, Paul Thompson (brother of famed Goalie Tiny Thompson of the Detroit Red Wings), and a onetime Hawk named Carl Voss...