Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shadow. "Young Teddy" spent the first half of his life overshadowed by his father, and most of the last half overshadowed by his fifth cousin, Franklin. Like his father, he had been sickly and nearsighted as a boy, and had rough & tumbled to strengthen himself. Like his father, he hunted big game and captured big headlines on spectacular safaris; he shot tapirs and jaguars in Brazil's Matto Grosso, became the first American to bag a panda, hunted timarau in the Philippines, spotted blue sheep and golden monkeys in Asia. Like his father and Cousin Franklin, he had started...
...campaign, Teddy called Franklin Roosevelt "my fifth cousin about-to-be-removed." Yet after Pearl Harbor, he briskly admonished an interviewer: "Remember, it's our country, our war, and our President...
...Evelyn Heath, the neurotic cousin, Julie Haydon, is properly whining and pasty-faced. Her part is an extremely difficult one to play, and only in some of her more intense scenes does she seem to be completely at ease. Robert Perry and Louise Valery draw adequate but rather broadly conceived portraits of a sensitive artist and his wife. Richard Hart, Marjorie Peggs, Kathryn Cameron round out the major speaking parts...
When Francois Coulet, General Charles de Gaulle's civil administrator for Normandy, fired subprefect Pierre Rochet, collaborationist chief of police of Bayeux, bitter-end patriots cheered. They pointed out that Rochet was a cousin of Pierre Pucheu, the first high Vichyite officially condemned and shot for treason...
Married. Mimi Chandler, 17, torch-singing Hollywood starlet (And the Angels Sing), daughter of Kentucky's Senator A. B. ("Happy") Chandler; and Army Ferry Command Major John Cabell, 27, cousin of Novelist (James) Branch Cabell; in Los Angeles...