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...smile could raise welts, and her dinner-table conversation regularly drew blood, some as blue as her own. She dismissed her cousin Franklin Roosevelt as "two-thirds mush and one-third Eleanor." When Columnist Joseph Alsop, another cousin, attributed grass-roots support to Wendell Willkie, the Republican hope to topple F.D.R. in 1940, she said yes, "the grass roots of 10,000 country clubs." It was she who demolished Thomas E. Dewey, the 1944 G.O.P. candidate, with the gibe that "he looks like the little man on the wedding cake...
...Kuwait the daily Al-Qabas said the incident was believed to have been masterminded by Imad Mughniyen, 36, a Lebanese who is both cousin and brother- in-law to one of the 17 jailed terrorists. Western intelligence agencies believe Mughniyen has led several attempts to free the prisoners. Among them: at least two other hijackings, including the seizure of TWA Flight 847 in 1985, during which U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem was beaten and shot to death. The kidnapers holding many of the more than 20 Western hostages in Lebanon, including nine Americans, have also made release of the prisoners...
Paul Constantine loved my cousin, too, which created a problem. My cousin was an Indians fan. When the three of us shuffled off to an Indians-A's game when I was six years old or so and my cousin and Paul (wearing his newly-purchased A's cap) were 10, my cousin ignored...
Paul hung on for about five innings, munching his popcorn, glancing at me and my cousin furtively, cheering when the A's got a hit. Then, his cheers got less boisterous. Finally, he announced, "What the heck, I love the Indians. I was just joking...
...bottom half of the ninth inning--when Buddy Bell smashed a home run over the left field wall to give the Indians a victory--my cousin forgave Paul. We were all Indians fans and we were happy...