Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alger Hiss is a third cousin...
...bond between Poteet and Lolita. the nymphet of the bestselling novel by Vladimir Nabokov (TIME, Sept. 1), seems even more vague than the "kissin' cousin" kinship Poteet claims for Steve, who dutifully has made her his ward. Poteet plays polo and coaches basketball, is always chaperoned when she travels with Steve. Square-jawed Steve gives his ward only the most brotherly kisses, has even punished her with a sound paddling. In contrast, Lolita confines her athletics to the bedroom, romps from motel to motel across the nation with her stepfather Humbert Humbert...
Died. Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens, 78, longtime (1922-50) Director of Fine Arts for Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute; in Miami. The son of Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens and a first cousin once removed of Painter Winslow Homer, Homer Saint-Gaudens was first a journalist, next entered the theater, directed Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon. As a fine-arts specialist, he knew the touch of the poet, once said: "What garlic is to salad, insanity...
...dress--cutaway and striped pants. Shabby though it may have been in a few places, his Harvard cutaway helped Curley make a name for himself. He wore it in campaigns for thirteen years until he was elected to Congress in 1911. Then Curley gave the suit away to a cousin who, in due time, he saw waked...
Lord Beaverbrook's Empire-thumping Evening Standard delightedly grumped: "To many in this country, it must seem regrettable that the movement to galvanize the Commonwealth should have sprung from Ottawa rather than London." By and large Britons were pleased at their cousin's bumptiousness; the Times headlined approvingly, CANADA'S RIGHT TO SHARE THE BURDEN...