Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carefully Antonio bandaged his eyes with torn bits of his mother's undershirt and started caressing a picture of his cousin, a war prisoner long unheard from. Nothing happened. Antonio burst out crying, then he remembered something said in the market about metal discs. He ran to a junk pile and picked up an old rivet. With this pressed firmly on his neck he stroked the picture once more. Suddenly, as if on a movie screen, the lost cousin appeared, dressed in a faded uniform and strolling down a grassy slope. "Where are you?" shouted Antonio. The cousin stopped...
Died. Joseph Medill Patterson, 67, publisher of New York's whopping tabloid Daily News, cousin of Colonel "Bertie" McCormick (Chicago Tribune) and brother of "Cissie" Patterson (Washington Times-Herald); of a liver ailment; in Manhattan (see PRESS...
...Cousin Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Tribune (and co-manager of the Medill Trust),* was certain to move in. And Sister Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson, shrill publisher of the Washington Times-Herald, would replace Brother Joe as a trustee. Neither has Joe's common touch...
Well, we made the picture and that's that. The point is that Harpo and Chico are brothers but they are both strangers to me. And, as for Sam Marx of M-G-M who reluctantly confesses to being their cousin-well, he's slightly mistaken. The fact of the matter is, he happens to be their joint child by a former marriage...
Tilda Thamar, blonde, green-eyed Argentine cinemactress, arrived in Miami to build up a little hemispheric good will, lost no time buckling down to work (see cut). Her name-around-the-house: Countess Toptani. Her husband's cousin: Albania's ex-King Zog. Among her distinctions: quadrilinguality...