Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last February and proclaimed the United Arab Republic, Iraq countered on February 14 by merging with its Hashemite brother, Jordan, in the Arab Union, Iraq's King Feisal became the head of the union, but the Constitution provided that in his absence, authority would pass to his young cousin, King Hussein of Jordan. Should Hussein now call for outside help, this clause might prove crucial in establishing the legitimacy of foreign intervention...
When television began to masquerade as the new electronic horizon, cynics pronounced radio dead, or at least moribund. The great names in radio-Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Red Skelton et al.-moved into view and their audiences followed them. For about five years radio played country cousin to TV. Then radio, in terms of listeners and earnings, began a spectacular comeback. Last week radio's listenership was up 8% over last year, 25% over its pre-TV peak in 1947. A record 140 million sets are in use v. 66 million at TV's dawn. Radio...
...fashioned Berber patriarch whose first loyalty was to his clan, wanted Krim to stay at home and follow the traditional Berber way of life. But Krim, determined to share in the new European existence introduced by the French, ran off to Algiers, where he lived with a cousin who was a minor civil servant, learned to read and speak French. Like the great majority of top rebel leaders, he is practically illiterate in Arabic, feels more at home culturally in a French atmosphere than in an Islamic...
Firman Houghton (according to the credits, he "writes poetry and plays") contributes a series of five fair poems, devolving from fractured form and bird imagery to a chair-ridden poor cousin of Gerontion, grieving over his memories. The best of the five is a childhood recollection called "Rocker." (Four poems and two stories in Audience come from the childhood kettle of perceptive innocence...
Married. Timothy Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 16th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 40, cousin (on the distaff side) of England's Queen Elizabeth II; and Mary Bridget Brennan, 29, Irish-born nurse who met the earl in a London nursing home three years ago, renounced the Roman Catholic faith to become his wife; in Glamis, Scotland...