Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...older brother Jeffrey started Sock It to Me five years ago to earn a Boy Scout badge. Nurse Karin Tackett, a next-door neighbor and friend of the Burris family, gave him the idea: homeless people are hard on socks; for hygienic and health reasons, they are always in need of new pairs. If Jeffrey would collect the socks, Tackett would have the Georgia Nurses Foundation, which treats the homeless, distribute the socks at shelters in nearby Atlanta and Athens. Helped by Jessica and parents Herb and Patty Burris, Jeffrey got his badge. But Jessica decided the campaign had merit...
...that he was stepping down from his post only until the charges were settled. His sister Denise DeBartolo York serves as ceo of the Edward J. DeBartolo Corp., a multibillion-dollar real estate empire founded in Youngstown, Ohio, by the pair's father. York immediately distanced herself from her brother's legal troubles and in a less than impassioned jump to his defense declared, "I hope everything works...
...Christmas Memory, which CBS will broadcast at 9 p.m. on Dec. 21. Based on the autobiographical story by Capote, it stars Patty Duke and is set in Alabama in the 1930s. Duke plays Sook, a childlike but loving old woman, who lives with her two sisters, her brother and her little cousin Buddy. Sook and Buddy (the adorable Eric Lloyd) are best friends. This relationship offends Sook's bossy, practical sister Jennie (Piper Laurie). They should be separated, Jennie decides, and Buddy must be sent to military school after the holidays...
...funeral on Thursday, Yates chose a low-cut black dress for mourning, even as friends and relatives remained bewildered at the singer's passing. Hutchence's brother Rhett said he visited the room where his brother died. "It seemed a sad room," he said, "definitely not Michael." Perhaps, though, it was the Michael no one got to know...
Although French, Degas had a substantial chunk of family in Louisiana. Ripe for a change of scenery, Degas eagerly agreed to accompany his brother Rene, newly established as a New Orleans cotton merchant, back to the New World in 1872. A transatlantic passage and a snaky voyage through the eastern United States dropped the Degas brothers at the New Orleans train station, where Edgar Degas met his cousins, the Mussons, for the first time, Rene, who had married a Musson daughter, had warned the family to expect a "g-r-r-r-eat artist," but Degas was cousin first...