Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rameshwari Nehru, a cousin of India's Prime Minister and a dear old lady whom everyone likes, took her idea to Indian leaders. Why not, said she, collect cultural, religious and scientific dignitaries of Asia into one grand "nonpartisan" conference to promote the cause of peace and brotherly love? The idea came to her, or was put to her, at last year's Communist-run Stockholm conference for "the reduction of world tension." Cousin Jawaharlal and leaders of his Congress Party gave their consent. Invitations went out to the capitals of Asia. and Indian President Rajendra Prasad agreed...
...Rameshwari Nehru got one opening-day opportunity to welcome the delegates ("Seeing you here is like a dream") and speak up for Cousin Jawaharlal's Pancha Shila-"five principles of coexistence." Then the Communists pushed the well-intentioned to the back of the stage and took over. "It's all very confusing," murmured one of Mrs. Nehru's friends. One by one, Communist speakers rode roughshod over the U.S. Kuo Mojo, one of Peking's loudest guns, vowed that Peking will not rest until it has conquered Formosa from the Nationalists. "It is a part...
...uncle of Robert McCormick. When Patterson died suddenly, a group of stockholders had about decided to sell the Trib to a publishing rival when young Robert McCormick stepped in. He persuaded them to keep the Tribune in the family. From 1914 on, he and his cousin, Joseph Medill Patterson, took complete charge of the Trib...
...some of the first serial comic strips (Moon Mullins, The Gumps, Little Orphan Annie) ever printed in a U.S. daily. They watched the paper's circulation and profits soar, bought vast Canadian pulp forests and a fleet of vessels that still supply the Trib with paper. But the cousins seldom saw eye to eye. Though he bitterly condemned the idle rich, Bertie reveled in his own aristocratic background; Patterson, a turtleneck sweater man at heart, rebelled against it, became an active Socialist. While he rode the streetcars of Chicago, rubbing shoulders with his readers, cousin Bertie rode to hounds...
Wine of Death. During World War I McCormick, an Illinois National Guard officer, and cousin Joe Patterson went overseas. (Wrote McCormick later: "I have tasted the wine of death, and its flavor will be forever in my throat".) At war's end Captain Patterson and Colonel McCormick launched the Daily News in New York. A few years later the cousins split; Patterson began to run the News alone, and McCormick bossed the Trib...