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Congressman Nat ("Cousin") Patton, black-hatted, bush-browed U.S. Representative from Texas, to whom almost everyone is "Cousin,"* found an exception in Columnist Drew Pearson. Cousin Patton, just defeated in a Texas run-off primary, met Pearson in the House restaurant, promptly pulled out a brown-handled knife, began to pound Pearson on the chest. Shouted Patton: "You beat me, you beat me. . . ." He demanded that the honor of another Patton (no kin) be cleared: ". . . you stabbed General Patton in the back when you wrote that story about him. You apologize to General Patton or I'll cut your...
...When the King and Queen of England received Congress, "Cousin Nat" greeted "Cousin George" and "Cousin Elizabeth." *Guernica is Picasso's most politically minded work, a 275-sq.-foot mural vividly suggesting the atrocities committed by Nazu airmen, fighting for Francisco Franco (and practice) during the Spanish Civil...
...slim 12 then, a desert torch singer fresh from Syria's Jebel Druse country. But Ama's family frowned on such shamelessness ; they bustled her into marriage with Cousin Emir Hassan, chief of the Druses...
Enter Ahmed. Ismahan's days, like Amal's days, were gaudy with melodrama. In 1941 she remarried Cousin Emir Hassan. Her motive was patriotism, not love. She brought him and his fierce Druse tribesmen into the Allied camp, inspired him to help the British take Syria from the Vichy French. Then she got another divorce and another husband, temperamental Ahmed Salem, Egypt's foremost cinema producer...
Eleanor Medill ("Cissie") Patterson's Washington Times-Herald picks up most of the bitterly anti-Roosevelt editorials and cartoons spawned by her brother Joe's New York Daily News and her cousin Bertie McCormick's Chicago Tribune. They rarely pick up any of hers. When 59-year-old "Cissie" takes pen in hand, the result is likely to be so rancorous that it shocks even a well-blunted masculine sense of fair play...