Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acres on the coast of Cornwall. Miss du Maurier finally rented it in 1943, five years after writing Rebecca, and there she has lived among the rhododendrons and cherry trees. Unfortunately, the owner would never sell "Menabilly" to the lady who immortalized it, and now, she says, "his second cousin wants to move in." So after 26 years, the novelist, who is now 61, faces the sad task of pulling up stakes. Says she: "It is rather like death to leave a place that has been home for me and my family for a quarter of a century...
...style blues musicians who had carried the blues up from the south to Chicago. And yet of all these great artists, few remain. Sonny Boy, Elmore James, Little Walter have all died. And the rest of the people in Chicago like J.B. Hutto and Homesick James (Elmore's cousin) barely make a living and are still playing in the same Chicago bars. Only Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf have achieved any sort of success. And while in concert, they play the same beautiful blues that they obviously choose to play, in the recording studio they are asked to play...
...other two Crimson competitors are Fritz Hobbs and Fernando Gonzales. These two will be trying to duplicate the performance of Harvard's pair last year--Rick Sterne and Jose Gonzales, Fernando's cousin. Sterne and Gonzales came in third and fourth last winter...
...Harvard Theatre Collection dates from 1915, when Robert Gould Shaw, class of 1869, a cousin of the Colonel Robert Gould Shaw who led the first Negro regiment in the Civil War, gave the University his private theatre collection...
...cousin who was hanged was a good man. Some of the most important men in Iraq came to his store. He was very, very far from politics." The speaker was Benjamin Aharon, 51, who left Baghdad in the early 1950s as did more than 100,000 fellow Jews, and now lives in Israel. Although his family had lived in Baghdad and Basra for centuries, he had no regrets about leaving. "We were all suspected of being spies for Israel, but we did nothing, nothing . . . They are Nazis." The 2,500 Jews who remain in Iraq today live under a reign...