Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alternative to Cheesecake was its cousin Celebrity. At the Metropolitan Opera, Soprano Lily Pons, Author Fannie Hurst and Tenor Lauritz Melchior each bought $5,000 worth, urged operagoers to do the same (see cut). For the New York premiere of the movie Yankee Doodle Dandy first-nighters subscribed $5,450,000 in bonds. Two months later, the Hollywood premiere boosted this...
Blond, bright-eyed Edward Collins, 12, lives in Rye, N.Y., spends his summers romping around his grandmother's Cape Cod cottage. One morning he and Cousin Grant Howes set out to explore the bayberry thickets, to find a new short cut to the beach. Instead they found something that set their pulses racing: a hidden, camouflaged tent filled with radio equipment...
...Luftwaffe's front-line role has been intensified beyond anything seen in previous German campaigns. Colonel General Wolfram von Richthofen (cousin of Germany's great World War I ace), who had the job of fitting the Luftwaffe to Mot pulk, devised his plan during the spring lull. Chief change: the number of dive-bombers on a given front has been tripled, and even quadrupled, to hurl the maximum weight from the air at Red troops, artillery and tanks...
Once Adolf Hitler was believed leary of onetime Midshipman Juan of the British navy. But Juan jilted his English sweetheart to marry, in Rome in 1935, his Bourbon-Sicily cousin, Princess Maria Mercedes. There he lived under the fascist wing until World War II sent him discreetly to Switzerland...
...Distant cousin of Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick...