Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...widow, mother of a four-year-old son, dies while giving birth to a girl. A native woman bears a still-born child at the same time, steals the white girl, whom she calls Naia, raises her as her own. From England, when Naia is 16, comes her real brother and his friend, tall, grey-eyed Alan Hardie, a promising young scientist, son of a stiff-necked general. Hardened Melodramatists Nordhoff & Hall are careful to keep these complications from turning into a story of incest, end their tale with the marriage of Naia and Alan, their shipwreck on a deserted...
...sons and other members of Harvard's Fly Club, disappeared in a private room to administer to Johnny the secret rites for newlywed brethren. When the time came, Johnny & Anne, their getaway covered by a bulky Secret Service car, set out to the summer home of Brother James's father-in-law, Dr. Harvey Gushing, at Rye Beach, N. H., thence to Campobello Island...
...possible death penalty. For nine weeks the Kynette trial has been Southern California's biggest political circus. District Attorney Fitts, eagerly re-establishing himself as a legal White Knight, extracted testimony that the Kynette squad of 17 "supersnoopers" got its orders directly from the mayor's brother and secretary, Joseph Shaw, a retired naval lieutenant. Lists of the persons spied on were introduced, including Mayor Shaw's last opponent, John Anson Ford, other local politicians and publishers, District Attorney Buron Rogers Fitts himself. Last week the jury handed down its verdict: the two Kynette aides were innocent...
...fashionable meeting of thoroughbreds; coming from behind at the two-mile mark and defeating Lord Glanely's Buckleigh by a nose after a breathless zigzag spurt in the stretch; at Ascot Heath, an hour from London. A 100-to-7 shot, Flares avenged the defeat of his full brother Omaha, who lost by a nose two years ago. Only one other U. S.-bred horse had ever succeeded in winning the Gold Cup; the late U. S. Speculator James R. Keene's Foxhall...
...Eugene Meyer has a fortune conservatively estimated, at $30,000,000 and a capacity for surrounding himself with able men. From The Brookings Institution, he hired an editor, Felix Morley (brother of Christopher), who soon won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. To give the paper zip, he hired a Middle-Westerner as managing editor, Alexander F. ("Casey") Jones. The Post soon developed a set of features good enough to be syndicated. Brightest among them are the arresting cartoons of 28-year-old Gene Elderman...